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balada
🇧🇷 Portuguese slang from Brazil
What does “balada” mean?
night out, club
Example
“A balada ontem tava lotada.”
The club was packed last night.
Good to know
São Paulo word for clubbing; "baladeiro" = party animal.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
🎉 Going out
The textbook way to say it: boate
Heard in a conversation
Who ate the cake?
Bruna De bobeira em casa o dia todo e não viu? Sei não... isso tá parecendo caô.
Hanging around at home all day and you didn't see it? I dunno... this sounds like BS.
Rodrigo Nem a pau! Foi o Caio, ele chegou da balada morrendo de fome.
No way! It was Caio, he came back from the club starving.
Bruna O Caio? Aquele que vive enchendo o saco de todo mundo? Vou fazer um barraco!
Caio? The one who's always bugging everyone? I'm going to make a scene!
🎉 How other countries say “a party, a night out”
- 🇵🇹 borgaPortugal · "Ir para a borga" = to go out partying.
- 🇦🇴 bodaAngola
More from Brazil
- rolêouting, hanging out
- boralet's go
- partiulet's go (to…)
- bailefunk party
- sextouit's Friday!
- brejabeer
- boteconeighborhood bar
- curtirto enjoy, to like
Songs from Brazil
- Ai Se Eu Te Pego · Michel TelóLevel A1
- Mas Que Nada · Jorge Ben JorLevel A2
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- Não Quero Dinheiro · Tim MaiaLevel A2
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