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Re:Richard Stallman Has Announced the GNU Kind Communication... by icebraining on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:28PM (#18293876)
As a native Portuguese speaker, I just replace the pronoun with, say, "the group" or some more specific description.

We have an advantage here, because you can translate "belongs to" as just "é do/a", so you can write "it belongs to the group" as "é do grupo".

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Re:Richard Stallman Has Announced the GNU Kind Communication... by ryanmccullagh on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:15PM (#18295481)
Thanks. I’m still learning, but I think I would use your style like this: instead of o carro é do eles. I could use o carro é do grupo. Please correct me.
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Re:Richard Stallman Has Announced the GNU Kind Communication... by icebraining on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:26PM (#18296562)
That's right! Though in the first, it would be "de eles" rather than "do eles", as "do" is a contraction of "de o", and one wouldn't say "de o eles".

To add further confusion: "de eles" is usually contracted to "deles", but only if "eles" is not a subject in the statement :)

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