welcome or welcome? The answer to that question is “welcome”, with hyphen. This is because the prefix “bem” requires the use of a hyphen. Thus, we must use the word “welcome” as an adjective or interjection. In addition, this term can be inflected for gender (“welcome”) and also for number (“welcome”).
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Topics of this article
- 1 - Summary about welcome or welcome
- 2 - Video lesson about welcome or welcome
- 3 - Welcome or welcome: which is the correct form?
- 4 - When to use welcome?
- 5 - Welcome flex
- 6 - The use of the hyphen in words composed of “good” and “bad”
- 7 - Exercises on welcome and welcome
Summary about welcome or welcome
The word “welcome” is written with a hyphen, this is the correct form.
We use the hyphen because, in this case, “bem” is a prefix.
The term “welcome” can have an adjectival or an interjective function.
The word “welcome” presents inflection of number and gender.
Video lesson about welcome or welcome
Welcome or welcome: which is the correct form?
we must write “welcome” (with hyphen), this is the correct way of this word, as can be seen in the following examples:
Welcome, Leopold!
This type of student is welcome to our school.
You are not welcome to our club.
When to use welcome?
The word “welcome” can be used with adjective function:
Example:
Your support is welcome.
And it can also appear as interjection:
Example:
Welcome, friend!
Do not stop now... There's more after the publicity ;)
welcome flex
The word “welcome” presents inflection of number (singular and plural) and gender (female and male):
Your support is welcome.
your help is welcome.
friends are welcome.
the friends are welcome.
The uses of the hyphen in words composed of “good” and “bad”
with the prefix good
After the prefix “bem”, with few exceptions, we always use hyphen:
A person blessed.
He was Successful in your mission.
There are, however, some exceptions. This is the case of “benefactor”, “benquerer” and “bendizer”.
with the prefix bad
But we only use a hyphen after the “mal” prefix when the word that follows is beginning with a vowel, "h", or "l":
malicious;
rude;
grumpy;
poorly washed.
Otherwise, the agglutination occurs:
mismatched;
bad seen;
disliked.
But attention! These rules are for the use of the prefixes "good" and "evil". However, these terms can also act as adverbs. In this case, you should not use the hyphen or perform the agglutination:
The defendant was well educated by the defense attorney.
the girl went poorly created by her parents.
In these examples, are highlighted the way how the defendant was instructed and the way the girl was raised. To learn more about using the hyphen, click here.
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Exercises about welcome and welcome
Question 01
Analyze this statement:
You are all welcome to my mansion!
Now mark the alternative in which the term “welcome” has a different number and gender than the sentence above.
a) Marcela is very welcome at the Saturday meetings.
b) Lívia and Marcela are very welcome at the Saturday meetings.
c) Mark is most welcome at the Sabbath meetings.
d) Claudio and Marcos are very welcome at the Saturday meetings.
e) Welcome, my dear cousins! How are you?
Resolution:
Alternative “a”.
In “You are all welcome to my mansion!”, the word “welcome” is inflected in the masculine plural. Therefore, the sentence that presents the opposite, that is, the feminine singular, is: “Marcela is very welcome to the Saturday meetings”.
Question 02
Read the following fragment and fill in the blanks with the correct form of the word “welcome”:
__________, friends. I am very happy to be able to count on you. And any help is always very __________ in difficult times like this. It's just not __________ those who contributed to us getting to this regrettable state of affairs. Unfortunately, my cousin Alfredo is one of those nefarious people.
The correct sequence for filling in the blanks is:
a) Welcome, welcome, welcome.
b) Welcome, welcome, welcome.
c) Welcome, welcome, welcome.
d) Welcome, welcome, welcome.
e) Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Resolution:
Alternative “d”.
In the first case, “welcome” agrees in gender and number with the word “amigos”. In the second, the word “welcome” is in agreement with the noun “help”. And finally, in the latter case, “welcome” agrees with the term “those”.
Sources
BECHARA, Evanildo. modern portuguese grammar. 37. ed. Rio de Janeiro: New Frontier, 2009.
WELCOME. in: digital aulete: contemporary dictionary of the Portuguese language(online). Lexicon Digital Publisher. Available in: https://www.aulete.com.br/bem-vindo.
WELCOME. in: Michaels: modern dictionary of the Portuguese language. Available in: https://michaelis.uol.com.br/palavra/2Mnp/bem-vindo/.
WELCOME. in: infopedia: Porto Editora dictionaries. Available: https://www.infopedia.pt/dicionarios/lingua-portuguesa/bem-vindo.
FEDERAL SENATE. Style: hyphen. Available in: https://www12.senado.leg.br/manualdecomunicacao/estilos/hifen.
By Warley Souza
Portuguese teacher
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SOUZA, Warley. "Welcome or welcome?"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/gramatica/bem-vindo-ou-bem-vindo.htm. Accessed May 18, 2023.
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