Assigning it, lifting it, bearing it — and by what standard a court decides that somebody has to.
Practise this list
From these 40 words, as many per round as you like — up to all of them: first what is due today, then new ones. First you choose, then you fill the gap, then you write it yourself. Mistakes come back again shortly.
More about this list
The seventeenth entry is em falta, glossed here as « at fault » because that is what its sentence needs: Quem não avisou está em falta, whoever failed to give notice is in the wrong. The difficulty is that Portuguese puts two further states into the same two words and English keeps all three apart. A thing can be em falta: a medicine em falta is out of stock, missing from the shelf, in short supply, and no blame attaches to anybody at all. A person can be em falta com alguém, and that is owing somebody something — an answer, a visit, a promise kept. « At fault » would be far too heavy there, because the English for it is to have let somebody down. Only the third use, the one this page needs, is about conduct. What saves the reader is to look at what comes next. Nothing at all after it, and the blame is meant; com and a person, and it is a debt of courtesy; a thing as the subject, and the shelf is simply empty.
The words
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assacarto pin something on somebodyVerbC1
O relatório assaca o erro ao turno da noite.The report pins the error on the night shift.
imputarto attribute (a fault) toVerbC1
Não se pode imputar o atraso a quem chegou depois.The delay cannot be attributed to the man who arrived later.
presumirto presumeVerbC1
O texto presume má vontade onde houve descuido.The text presumes ill will where there was only carelessness.
repartirto apportionVerbC1
O tribunal repartiu a responsabilidade pelas duas partes.The court apportioned responsibility between the two sides.
