O Auto da Compadecida (movie) (Advanced): Trial scene

🇵🇹 [Nossa Senhora] is a very common Catholic way to refer to Mary, and in Portugal it can also appear as an everyday exclamation of surprise or concern, not only in prayer.

💬 With people pronouns after the verb, Portuguese often attaches them with a hyphen: [salve-nos] = "save us," [ouvi-nos] = "hear us." Here [a todos nós] adds emphasis: literally "to all of us," but the sense is still just "us all."

🇵🇹 This sounds like a prayer or solemn plea, not something you'd use in ordinary conversation. In Portugal, it lands as strongly Catholic and devotional.

💬 In older or prayer-like Portuguese, [ouvi] can mean "hear" as a command to more than one person; modern everyday Portugal Portuguese would usually use [oiçam]. The [-nos] on the end means "us": [ouvi-nos] = "hear us."

💬 [Quando] can introduce a full clause with its own verb: [quando chegamos] = "when we arrive," [quando clamamos] = "when we call out."

💬 This is elevated, old-fashioned prayer language. In modern spoken Portuguese, you'd be more likely to hear [ouve-nos] or [oiçam-nos] depending on who is being addressed.

💬 In Portugal, unstressed final [e] often gets very weak, so [leite] sounds closer to (LAY-t) than a full (lay-chee).

💬 [Da] is the common contraction of [de] + [a]. Same pattern: [do] = [de] + [o], [na] = [em] + [a].

💬 [Da] is [de] + [a], so [da vaca] literally means "of/from the cow." Portuguese uses this contraction constantly, so it's worth spotting automatically.