Portuguese lyrics swing between tenderness and street talk, sometimes in the same verse, and Brazilian and European Portuguese can sound like two different languages in a song. Portuguese and English are already set in the translator above, so paste the lyrics for a faithful English translation, a singable version and notes on the words English cannot quite hold.
Brazilian and European Portuguese differ in vocabulary, slang and even pronouns. In Brazil você is the everyday you and tu is regional; in Portugal tu is the normal informal you. A word like rapariga simply means a girl in Portugal but is an insult in much of Brazil. The translator reads each word in context, and the notes say when a meaning depends on which side of the Atlantic the song comes from.
Portuguese adds inho and inha to make things small, sweet or teasing: um beijinho, devagarinho. English has no ending that does the same job, so the translation carries the tone with words like little, soft or just, or lets the diminutive go when it would sound silly.
Saudade is a longing for someone or something that is gone, mixed with the love you still feel for it. There is no single English word for it. The faithful version picks the closest phrase for each line, and the notes explain what was lost.
Urban Brazilian genres have their own vocabulary, and it changes quickly. The translator explains the slang it had to interpret, so you can see which lines are a reading of the words rather than a dictionary meaning.
Endings like ão and em are sung as one nasal syllable that often sits on a long note. English rarely ends a line on a sound that can be held the same way, so when you sing the English version, the long note may need to move to an open vowel.
Two original lines, written for this page, in Brazilian Portuguese. Sung with the vowels blended, each line has about 13 syllables.
Deixei a janela aberta pro teu sorriso entrar,
mas só entrou a chuva e um pouco de saudade.
I left the window open so your smile could come in,
but only the rain came in, and a little longing.
I left the window open so your smile could find its way
but only rain came through, and a little ache of missing you
Pro is the casual Brazilian contraction of para o, a clue that the song is from Brazil. The faithful version translates saudade as longing, which is close but cooler than the Portuguese. The singable version turns it into the ache of missing you, which takes a few more syllables but keeps the warmth, and lets the smile find its way so the first line ends on an open vowel a singer can hold.
Yes. It reads both, including regional words and slang, and the notes say when a word means something different in Brazil and Portugal.
Differently depending on the line, because the word covers a lot of ground: missing someone, longing for the past, homesickness. The faithful version picks the closest English for that line, and the notes explain the choice.
They are kept as they are in both versions, and only the Portuguese is translated.
It is written for that: each line stays within about two syllables of the Portuguese and close to its rhythm, and rhyming lines still rhyme. Sing it through and adjust anything that feels crowded. If the song is not yours, releasing a cover with new lyrics may need permission from its writers or publisher.
Yes. Switch to Upload a song, add the audio file, and it writes down the Portuguese lyrics as sung, shows them to you, and translates them in one step. Each mode shows its price on its button.