mestê

Macanese

Alternative forms
  • amestê

Etymology

From Portuguese mester (“necessary”)[1], from Old Galician-Portuguese mester. Alternative form derives from Portuguese há mester (“there is necessity”)[2].

Predicative

mestê (negative nomestê)

  1. it is needed, it is necessary[3]
    Antonym: nuncassá
    ...mestê primêro / fazê três quatro viazi
    ...first it is needed / to make three or four trips

Derived terms

References
  1. Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988), “mestê”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 483
  2. Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988), “amestê”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 159
  3. https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm
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