English-Portuguese translations for while

• embora
  Embora se trate de um assunto técnico, é também um assunto muito real. While it is technical, it is also very real.
  Embora gostasse de a ajudar, a verdade é que não o posso fazer. While I would like to help, I am afraid I cannot.
  Muito embora se trate de um primeiro passo, consideramo-lo demasiado insatisfatório. While that is a first step, we see it as too insubstantial.
• enquanto
  Enquanto esperamos, a realidade avança. While we wait, reality moves on.
  Nós continuamos cantando e rindo enquanto Roma arde.We are fiddling while Rome burns.
  Enquanto a Rússia tem demais, nós temos de menos. While Russia has too much, we have too little.
• malgrado
• tempo
  Isso vai demorar algum tempo a mudar. That will be a while in changing.
  Já há algum tempo que aguardamos. We have been waiting for a while now.
  Levámos algum tempo a persuadi-lo a agir. We took a while to persuade him to act.

Definition of while

• An uncertain duration of time, a period of time
• During the same time that
• Although
• Until
• As long as
• Until
• To pass idly
• To occupy or entertain in order to let time pass
• To loiter

Examples

• He lectured for quite a long while
• He was sleeping while I was singing
• This case, while interesting, is a bit frustrating
• Ill wait while youve finished painting
• While youre at school you may live at home
• He was detained for four hours at the store yesterday. His crime? Shopping while black

Related words

• awhile
• worthwhile
• erstwhile
• meanwhile
• while clause
• while away
• while loop
• while one is at it
• while one is about it