One word I like is “bravo”. Not in the sense of “angry”, mind you, but in the sense of “brave”, “brave”, “brave”. As in our Anthem of Independence: Brave Brazilian people …!
Unfortunately, the tendency of our language was to keep only the less beautiful sense. But at least in English, brave has only this sense that for us was in the past: “courageous”.
Well then. English being English, it didn’t take long for a noun in perfect health to be cloned and used as a verb. This happened already in the middle of 1500, in the good times when the brave Brazilian people did not even exist yet. Unless you consider Brazilians the Indians that Europeans wiped out by the thousands – but that would be applying a modern concept to the past, which almost never works.
But we are distorting ourselves. Filling sausage, the cynics would say. Because the fact is that we were going to talk about the phrasal verb brave out , which was derived from the verb brave .
Brave out , like your brave cousin , means “face” or “face”. But with a nuance, because the preposition out brings with it an idea of “going to the end”. That is, when you use brave , you may not have in mind the end of the difficulties to be faced. Already brave October tends to indicate a conclusion.
We have to note that brave out is not a very common phrasal verb . Most often, it is used with an “embedded object”: the pronoun it , which is placed between the two parts of the phrasal verb . It looks like this: brave it out . “Face it to the end” or simply “face it”.
But well, let’s see some examples, because after all an example is worth many explanations.
Of course, be sure to use Anki to write down a sentence or two and review it later.
1 – We start with a simple brave out followed by an object. Note that the object can come between brave and out , too. “Face”, “face” or “face to the end”.
I don’t know if all the men can brave the attack out .
I don’t know if all men can cope with the attack to the end .
The soldiers braved out the attack.
The soldiers faced the attack.
The explorers braved out the hot weather and dangerous animals during their journey.
The explorers faced hot weather and dangerous animals during their expedition.
2 – Already brave it out , which we like to translate as “facing the situation / difficulties” or “facing the situation to the end”, is a much more common structure.
Although I felt dizzy from smoke inhalation, I managed to brave it out until all the kids were out of the burning building.
Although I felt dizzy to inhale smoke, I managed to face the situation until all the children were out of the burning building.
She decided to brave it out and applied for permission from the Police.
She decided to face it and requested permission from the police.
Petey heard him trying to brave it out , rocking back and forth to make the pain subside.
Petey heard him trying to cope , rocking back and forth to make the pain go away.
The coach’s sudden death made this a very challenging season, but our players have braved it out admirably.
The coach’s sudden death has made this a very difficult season, but our players have looked at the situation admirably.
They had far fewer votes than the opposition, but they decided to brave it out .
They had far fewer votes than the opposition, but decided to face it .
It will be a tough game against such strong players, but you should brave it out and play as well as you can.
It will be a tough game against such strong players, but you must face and play as well as you can.
Having now closed the deal with IMF the nation must brave it out for the next three years.
Now that the agreement with the IMF has ended, the nation must face difficulties for the next three years.
Did you get the sense right? Any questions – or suggestions – be sure to comment below!
