paciência
[pah-see-en-see-uh]
nounfemininepl: paciências
patience
1. The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious
You need patience to learn a new language.
Você precisa de paciência para aprender uma nova língua.
2. Perseverance and endurance in facing difficulties
With patience and hard work, she achieved her goals.
Com paciência e trabalho duro, ela alcançou seus objetivos.
3. A card game played with one person and a standard deck
She played solitaire (patience) while waiting.
Ela jogou paciência enquanto esperava.
Related Idioms & Phrases
perder a paciência (to lose patience)
ter paciência (to have patience)
com paciência (patiently)
a paciência tem limite (patience has its limits)
paciência de santo (the patience of a saint)
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