Questões de Língua Inglesa · UNIVALI

Língua InglesaCognatos e falsos cognatosUNIVALI 2026

Pref Luiz Alves

Questão de Língua Inglesa

Regarding the use of vocabulary and the phenomenon of "false friends" in the relationship between English and Portuguese, mark T for True or F for False: (__)The word "actual" in English is a false cognate that means "na verdade" or "real", and it should not be translated as "atual" in Portuguese. (__)The English term "novel" refers to a long fictional narrative in prose (romance), while the Portuguese word "novela" is typically translated as "soap opera" or "short novel". (__)"Comprehensive" is a cognate word that shares exactly the same meaning with "compreensivo" in Portuguese, usually describing someone who is empathetic. (__)Lexical precision in academic English requires the use of phrasal verbs instead of Latinate single-word equivalents to increase the level of formality and abstraction. Now, choose the CORRECT alternative with the sequence from top to bottom:

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