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Portugal’s “joyful sadness” is encapsulated in a single word: saudade. No other language has a word quite like it. It is untranslatable.
Saudade is a longing, an ache for a person or place or experience that once brought great pleasure. It is akin to nostalgia but, unlike nostalgia, one can feel saudade for something that’s never happened, and likely never will.
At the heart of saudade lies a yawning sense of absence, of loss.
I think most of us can relate with the sentiment.
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From online portuguese dictionary
Saudade
Nostalgic feeling provoked by the great distance of something or someone, thing or place.Or by the will of experiencing again past memories.
Shitty translation by me, I didn't even read the article but the wrong definition in your OP made me mad enough to do this gay translation for you.
I ll be monitoring this thread for a while AMA
Im going to read your gay article now
desu no ones likes feeling "saudade"
a more close translation would be when you anglos say "oh I really miss my mom" - PT "I feel saudades of my mom"
it is not "memba the ninetiesss" "membaa..." gay thing from south park
I read a bunch of definitions and the one I like is
>nostalgia for something that never existed
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the Portuguese really are miserable people
look man.
I am exposed to this language since I was born.
I have never used or seen this word used for nostalgia of something that never happened.
Sure is used in situations where nostalgia is being talked about.You actually say you "have saudades" of something.It can be anything.But I have never heard it being something we enjoy to feel.
Im portuguese.. I dont know what that article is about but frankly its bullshit lol.
saudade is when you miss something or someone..
what is the other bullshit about? no idea.
the article said it has a melancholic aspect to the word
so I feel sad thinking about dead relatives/friends but it also makes me feel good thinking about the times we spent together.
bittersweet
I don't know if you can call it enjoyment but its not pure sorrow or longing
thanks dad.
This bullies were talking shit about us.
do you enjoy it?
Monkey doesn't know his own language. Many such cases. Sad!
You're welcome brasil-bro
makes sense, you feel sad because they are gone but are happy because of the fond memories even though the person will never return
i love your guy's language, to me it sounds like french mixed with italian, i'm leaving for colombia tomorrow probably won't make it to brazil this year but next year i want to take a separate trip
oh, Estonia
brit identifies with brazil more so than its own colony
you are gay as fuck, OP
the english word is "wistful"
>trusting big black cock news over nondelusional, real life anons
Imagine if i go out here trying to explain estonians what's their language and what not.
I gets clammy, singing mammy
>tfw saudade for my ex
hold me bros
...
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Wow thats me nearing thirty every moment I am not distracted.
Saudade is a difficult thing to define. It's a yearning with a dash of nostalgia. A prideful sadness.
Just see if on jewtube some translated fado songs. Fado is all about saudade/death.
so there is pride involved
can you elaborate a bit
Sure, people here like feeling sad I guess.
It's really weird, you see (mostly older) people nostalging about the old times and people they knew even though it was pretty shitty.
It's harder to explain it than it seems. Young people are guilty of it too, college "serenatas" when judging by the music playing you'd think it's a funeral or something.
are the college kids nostalgic about the same time period as the older people?
they wouldn't have been alive
I sometimes has a weird feeling of missing the early 1900's aussie bush even though it would have been rough as fuck and I wasn't alive
There's nothing wrong with depression
Being depressed is synonymous with being Redpilled Tbh
Portus have feels that no one else does. In Spain when we gets feels we jes torture dumb animals.
No, they are nostalgic about the college times. The serenata is a serenade played for the last year students about them missing their college times.
It was the only occasion I cried during my adult life to be honest.
You can see it here.
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And the lyrics in Portuguese are here. Google translate it because I'm on my phone.
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that was pretty nice, thanks
I don't think I really get it though
the music evokes strange emotions I'm not used to
You know the drawing of goodbye
It is a fire that burns us slowly,
And in slow closing of eyes of yours
It is the hope of one day here to come back
that's pretty sweet
You're welcome.
It's hard to translate it properly but it's a song to say goodbye to your life as a student, your friends and your loves. The only thing you take with you is the bittersweet memories from those times (saudade) and the hope of one day coming back to relive it again.
do you acknowledge that you wont come back or is there a genuine hope that you will relive those times?
Well I guess it depends on the people.
To me I come back every now and again to be with some of my friends but it just isn't the same.
Is it like when you're drinking a pint of vodka and you're both happy that you are drinking but sad when there's always less and less vodka left?
I sort of get a similar feeling when I go back to my home town, I'm regularly homesick and miss it but when I go there I see my old friends and they're junkies or no-hopers and all the family businesses have closed down
Well a Portuguese would be happy he's sad and reminisce of the times he spent there and how life was great back then and how it won't ever be the same again.