Ever noticed the crack in the Portuguese matrix?

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Brazilian Portuguese 🇧🇷

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estar - a state, means to be, temporarily, can be changed within 5 minutes ("eu to com frio, vc ta com fome")

ser - a state, means to be, permanent, cannot be changed within 5 minutes ("eu sou um brasileiro, ela é uma mulher")

Since we have clearly a differentiation between those 2 states, the state of being dead should definitely be "ser" because we cannot change it back within 5 minutes and the state is now permanent.

BUT we say "ele ta morto" which indicates that he can change his state again :)

Looking forward to the reddits justification why we use estar instead of ser

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