🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

passagem

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pa-sa-zhẽ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fare/fɛər/
nounverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #2450 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Comprei a passagem de trem com antecedência."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The money a passenger must pay to ride on a bus, train, ship, taxi, or other form of public transportation.

    "She searched her bag for enough loose change to pay the bus fare."
As verb
  1. 1

    To perform, progress, or get along in a specified way in a given situation or journey.

    "How did you fare in your final university examinations?"

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English word 'faran', meaning 'to go, journey, travel', originating from Proto-Germanic *faraną. Over centuries, the meaning shifted from the act of traveling to the money paid for a journey, and eventually generalized to apply to ticket prices for various forms of transportation.

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