I had a brief text exchange with a former teacher of mine who pings me occasionally on Skype when she’s at a loose end. She was always sending me very basic vocabulary lists – “Learn the name of portuguese animals: Pássaro, Cavalo, Gato, Peixe… etc” – even when I was working toward B2, so I don’t think she had a high opinion of my language acquisition skills. I mentioned I’d passed the DAPLE and she replied “O C1? Tu passaste o C1?” and then in the next text “Incrível” and I was wondering does she mean incrível as in “wow, that’s amazing” or incrível as in “I find that hard to believe”?
Well, hopefully the former, but I didn’t dare ask! Moved on too parabéns for her casamento instead. Safer ground.
incrível
(in·crí·vel)
adjectivo de dois géneros
1. Que não pode ser acreditado; em que não se pode acreditar.
2. Extraordinário.
3. Que custa a acreditar.
“incrível”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa [em linha], 2008-2024, https://dicionario.priberam.org/incr%C3%ADvel.
Luso 