Portuguese English Dictionary

português - English

frente in English:

1. front front


The front door remained locked.
Whenever I get on the subway, I put my wallet in my front pocket.
The other day when I stopped by at a friend's house, it wasn't my friend that came out of the front door, but her husband.
The front wheel plays an important role in two-wheeled vehicles moving without falling over.
I may seem confident, but I get extremely nervous speaking in front of people. My hands tremble, I get all tongue-tied, and sometimes I don't even know what I'm saying myself.
Moreover, when viewed from the side, the front teeth are protruding.
On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
Pretty soon along came to the village some strangely dressed people who called themselves surveyors; and they surveyed a line in front of my grandmother's little house.
The Mafia uses legitimate business operations as a front.
Polyphemus, son of Neptune, had only one eye in the front.
What's up? Fidgeting around in front of the house. "Um ... I was waiting for you to come back."
The novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque has been translated into more than fifty languages.
When many enemies appear in front of you, look back, you have many allies as well.
The exchange unfolding in front of my eyes had not a single millimetre of a gap in which for me to slip.
You need to reverse your vest, it's back to front.

2. in front


You are right in front of us.
There is a car in front of the building.

English word "frente"(in front) occurs in sets:

1000 Most common Portuguese words - part 2

3. forward


move forward
The discussion produced a great deal of noise, but no forward motion.
The sudden gust of wind filled the sails and lurched the boat forward.
When answering this question, some people might put forward this kind of example: "Chinese people are very hospitable, whilst English people are more reserved."
If you wind up the doll with the key on the side of its torso it will swing its arms round and go forward doing somersaults.
Crawl forward is done much more agilely - scuttle like a cockroach!
He resolutely pushed forward from the start, overwhelming and pushing out his off-balance opponent.
She closed her eyes, pursed her lips and leaned forward for a kiss.
If it goes well, I'll put you forward for a drama serial.
You've sprained your ankle and can't walk can you? "No, I'm fine! I can move forward at a crawl!"
Our party finally had a candidate we could put forward with pride.
With both mind and body in their best condition, let's look forward to the newcomers' training camp.
Social conditions are going backward rather than forward.
If we are to judge the future of ocean study by its past, we can surely look forward to many exciting discoveries.
When you learn to drive, at first you have to learn how to move forward.