How do you say
“they claim they were only protecting the children” in
Portuguese?
Here's the answer:
“alegam que estavam apenas a proteger as crianças”
Watch a real native speaker say it:
Here's how it sounds in a textbook:
You could also say:
eles alegam que estavam apenas a proteger as crianças
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