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De Nada Adianta

English translation: being useless

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Portuguese term or phrase:De Nada Adianta
English translation:being useless
Entered by: Renata Ruas

10:36 Sep 27, 2018
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Linguistics / Tribunais
Portuguese term or phrase: De Nada Adianta
Em uma notificação, aparece a expressão: "..., de nada adiantando ir ao mercado...".
Parei aí.
Alguma luz?, pergunto aos colegas.
Muito obrigada desde já,
Renata Costa.
Renata Ruas
Brazil
Local time: 07:00
being useless
Explanation:
taking into account the verb tense of the expression in the original

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Note added at 9 hrs (2018-09-27 20:24:27 GMT)
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another option just occurred to me:
''being to no avail''
Selected response from:

Katarina Peters
Canada
Local time: 06:00
Grading comment
Thank you.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4being useless
Katarina Peters
3 +3it is/was pointless
Ana Vozone
4 +1It is/was no use
Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira


Discussion entries: 4





  

Answers


1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
It is/was no use


Explanation:
... going to the market.

Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 31

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
21 mins
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
it is/was pointless


Explanation:
Mais uma sugestão

Example sentence(s):
  • 'It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe.'
  • It is pointless delivering to a busy person a large document for review at short notice if delays in approval will hold up progress.
Ana Vozone
Local time: 11:00
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
15 mins
  -> Obrigada, Teresa!
agree  Nick Taylor
38 mins
  -> Obrigada, Nick!
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: ' since it was pointless to ...'
10 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Muriel!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
De Nada Adiantando
being useless


Explanation:
taking into account the verb tense of the expression in the original

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Note added at 9 hrs (2018-09-27 20:24:27 GMT)
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another option just occurred to me:
''being to no avail''

Katarina Peters
Canada
Local time: 06:00
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Oliver Simões
2 mins
  -> Obrigada, Oliveira!
agree  Clauwolf
3 hrs
  -> Thank you, Clauwolf.
agree  Mario Freitas:
8 hrs
  -> Thank you, Mario.
agree  Gilmar Fernandes
22 hrs
  -> Thank you, Gilmar.
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