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"Saudade is a Portuguese word that has no direct translation in English. (...) The "Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa" defines saudade (or saudades) as "A somewhat melancholic feeling of incompleteness. It is related to thinking back on situations of privation due to the absence of someone or something, to move away from a place or thing, or to the absence of a set of particular and desirable experiences and pleasures once lived." (...) Saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses. (...)"
- Amira
"It can be described as an emptiness, like someone (e.g., one's children, parents, sibling, grandparents, friends, pets) or something (e.g., places, things one used to do in childhood, or other activities performed in the past) that should be there in a particular moment is missing, and the individual feels this absence. In Portuguese, 'tenho saudades tuas', translates as 'I have saudade of you' meaning 'I miss you', but carries a much stronger tone. In fact, one can have 'saudade' of someone whom one is with, but have some feeling of loss towards the past or the future."
- Amira
Have you been in Portugal "Amira"? i can not send you a direct message. i am able to send it to you?
- jose manuel
I was in Lisbon a few years ago, are you from Portugal?
- Amira
Yes i am from Portugal. Can i add you on my facebook as a friend? [email protected] (my contact)
- jose manuel