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Portuguese translation: deficiência

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15:35 Nov 15, 2009

English to Portuguese translations [Non-PRO]
Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy

English term or phrase: weakness

1) An audiological examination indicated a weakness in auditory decoding.

2) In many cases, student weakness in writing was not identified until the submission of the first assessed essay.

Debilidade? Obrigado!

croquemonsieur

Portuguese translation:deficiência

Explanation:
sugstão

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Marcelo da Luz
Brazil
Local time: 18:43

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deficiência

Marcelo da Luz

4 +4

insuficiência

Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun

fraqueza; o ponto fraco; defeito; falha; debilidade

Carla Lopes

dificuldade de expressão escrita

Isabel Maria Almeida

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4 mins confidence:

fraqueza; o ponto fraco; defeito; falha; debilidade

Explanation:
Babylon English-Portuguese

weakness
s. fraqueza; o ponto fraco; defeito; falha

Michaelis Moderno Dicionário Inglês-Português (English-Portuguese)

weak.ness
[w'i:knis] n 1 fraqueza: a) fragilidade. b) debilidade, estado adoentado. 2 imbecilidade. 3 inclinação, lado fraco. 4 ponto fraco, deficiência. a weakness for someone/something Braz, coll uma queda por (inclinação para/por, gostar muito de). she had a weakness for him / ela tinha uma queda por ele. weakness of mind a) fraqueza de espírito. b) falta de caráter. writing is his weakness escrever é o seu fraco.

Carla Lopes
Portugal
Local time: 20:43
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 12

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

insuficiência

Explanation:
diria assim

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Note added at 5 mins (2009-11-15 15:40:49 GMT)
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[PDF]
MAURO DOMINGUES FERNANDES O MÉTODO CLÍNICO NA MEDICINA ...
Formato do arquivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
palavras simples, indicando uma insuficiência no processo fonológico. Essas ...... déficit de decodificação auditiva: dificuldade para analisar as ...
www.sapientia.pucsp.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=234... -

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Note added at 6 mins (2009-11-15 15:41:44 GMT)
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ou déficit

Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Local time: 21:43
Native speaker of:

Norwegian,

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 95

6 mins confidence:

dificuldade de expressão escrita

Explanation:
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Isabel Maria Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 20:43
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

deficiência

Explanation:
sugstão

Marcelo da Luz
Brazil
Local time: 18:43
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 19

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