Tecla SAP Dicas de inglês

Saudade is a very difficult word to translate. The word comes from the Latin ‘solitas, solitatis’ ‘solitude’, but for Brazilians it means much more than just feeling sad and alone because you are far from the people, places or things you like. The feeling always seems to be much more intense and emotional than anything like ‘longing’ or ‘yearning’, and it is never quite the same as ‘homesickness’. Brazilians really do miss being away from home much more than the British or Americans, for example. ‘To miss somebody or something is’: Estar com saudade de algo ou alguém. Ter saudade de algo ou alguém. Sentir saudade de algo ou alguém.
Ficar com saudade de algo ou alguém.
If you really miss somebody or something, you can say:
Eu estou morrendo de saudade de você.
I’m dying to see you again.

And if you visit or see again a person a place you like very much and have been missing, you use the expression:
Matar saudades – Lit. kill the longings.
Ele voltou ao Brasil para matar saudades da namorada.
He came back to Brazil to see his girlfriend again.