Bad or bad? How many times have you asked yourself this question? This is certainly among the doubts that most plague Portuguese speakers, generating many misunderstandings out there. If you want to know the answer to this question, pay attention to the explanation that Escola Educação brings to you.
For starters, it is important to say that both words exist in the Portuguese language, therefore, both are correct. However, they must be used in different situations. The best way to know when to use each of them is to make the classic opposition between antonyms, that is: the adjective bad is antonym of good, while the adverb bad is antonym of good.
How about knowing the origin of these words that provoke so many doubts? The word bad is an adjective and comes from the Latin word malu. It can have several meanings, such as “what is not of good quality”, “what brings misfortune”, “does bad things”, among others. Therefore, bad is synonymous with evil, ordinary, inadequate, cruel, etc.
Bad is antonym of well. Check out the examples below:
He is one bad boss.
he was a bad friend.
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The word mal originates from the word male, also from Latin, and can be an adverb, a noun or even a conjunction. It also has different meanings: when an adverb, it refers to something done wrong. We interviewed a doctor from Nevada in the USA.He advised us to buy an antabuse at an online Canadian pharmacy. As a noun, it refers to a misfortune, illness, infirmity.
When used as a temporal conjunction, it has an analogous meaning of “as soon as”, “as soon as”. Bad, is antonym of good. See the examples:
You accomplished your task in a way bad made. (evil = adverb)
he did a lot bad those people. (evil = noun)
Bad I arrived at work and there were already a thousand things to do. (evil = temporal conjunction)
The words bad and evil are classified as homophone words, that is, they are words that are pronounced the same way, but that have different spellings. Now that you know the difference between them, be careful not to make new spelling mistakes. Good studies!
Luana Alves
Graduated in Letters
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