Note 32 — VI. PRONOUNS
Reading edition
These are from the Latin pronoun illo and are not to be confused with the definite article which has the same forms. There is a tendency to avoid the use of o, so that one often hears such expressions as va chamar elle instead of va chama-lo; or visitar-lhe instead of visita-lo. A Brazilian scholar observes: “assim o pobre o vai perdendo terreno.”