Estourado

English translation: Exhausted

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Portuguese term or phrase:	Estourado
English translation:	Exhausted
Entered by:	judith ryan

14:22 May 16, 2013

Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Psychology

Portuguese term or phrase: Estourado

I am back-translating a mood scale from European Portuguese and came across Estourado as a mood ... could this be distressed?

thanks

judith ryan KudoZ activity Questions: 813 (4 open) (53 without valid answers) (47 closed without grading) Answers: 465 Brazil
Local time: 07:57

Exhausted

Explanation:
Sorry, I didn't see it was PT-PT first time round

Selected response from:

Douglas Bissell
Portugal
Local time: 11:57

Grading comment

Thanks, in Brazil is would mean bad tempered, glad I asked for help
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Summary of answers provided

4 +5

Exhausted

Douglas Bissell

he gets angry easily

gninolps (X)

4 +1

bad-tempered/easily irritated/short-fused

Marlene Curtis

feeling run down

Nick Taylor

Discussion entries: 11

Answers

4 mins confidence:

ele é estourado he gets angry easily

Explanation:
At least that's what it means in Brazilian Portuguese.

gninolps (X)
Brazil
Local time: 07:57
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

bad-tempered/easily irritated/short-fused

Explanation:
Estourado

It means one is bad-tempered, easily irritated, he has a short fuse

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 06:57
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 26

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

Exhausted

Explanation:
Sorry, I didn't see it was PT-PT first time round

Douglas Bissell
Portugal
Local time: 11:57
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

Thanks, in Brazil is would mean bad tempered, glad I asked for help

2 hrs confidence:

feeling run down

Explanation:
feeling run down (maybe this sounds a bit old fashioned? (rising inflection) But it is certainly what is used in the UK)

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Note added at 4 hrs (2013-05-16 18:56:11 GMT)
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if it is a "mood" "state of mind" use "feeling" run-down rather than "is" run down. This is very common in the UK, and is frequently used by native speakers where "exhausted" has a more neutral connotation, rather than "estoirado" which is a bit more :-)

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Note added at 4 hrs (2013-05-16 18:56:57 GMT)
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drained, enervated, exhausted, fatigued,

Reference: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2008011003301...

Nick Taylor
Local time: 11:57
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 20

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