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The equivalent of the English sentence 'I love you' is Eu amo voce in Brazilian Portuguese, and Eu te amo in peninsular Portuguese. The pronunciation is the following: AY-oo AH-moo voh-SAY; and AY-oo chee AH-moo. The word-by-word meaning of the two possibilities is the following: 'eu' means 'I'; 'amo' 'love'; 'voce' 'you'; 'te' 'you'. Brazilian Portuguese doesn't differentiate when 'you' refers to listeners of senior age or rank, and when 'you' refers to listeners in the same circle of friends as the speaker. But peninsular Portuguese does. And so, in Portugal, the former word is 'voce', the latter 'tu'.

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