Líder de torcida acorda do coma vinte anos depois

What does “sem querer me achar” mean in Portuguese?

On its own, achar just means “to think” or “to find.” But make it reflexive — se achar — and it flips to “to be full of yourself,” the same as calling someone metido (stuck-up). So sem querer me achar literally means “without wanting to be full of myself” — the polite disclaimer a Brazilian tacks on right before saying something that sounds like a brag, exactly like English “not to toot my own horn, but…”

The whole effect rides on that reflexive twist. Acho que sim is “I think so,” but ela se acha means “she thinks she’s all that.” In the clip the cheerleader captain wakes from a coma, says “Ah, sem querer me achar… mas eu sou a capitã” (“not to sound full of myself… but I’m the captain”), and the mas (“but”) gives the game away — the hedge exists precisely so the brag can follow. You’ll also hear variants like não que eu queira me achar with the same hedging job.