Você viu?

From the video learning course, INTENSIVO. To ask “did you see…” or, “have you seen…” use VER (to see). Like this: Você viu Gabriela? ➜ Have you seen Gabriela? Você viu o jogo? ➜ Did you see the game? O que você viu lá? ➜ What did you see there? Você já viu tudo? ➜…

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I’ve been working

Eu tenho trabalhado, e você? And, what about you, what have you been up to? In english, the ‘been’ is a way of signaling that you’re talking about the past, about something that is ongoing.  If you say for example. ‘Eu trabalhei’ it means that you worked and that it’s done. To talk about some action…

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The Present Perfect Tense

In Portuguese there are several ways to refer to something that happened in the past, each with varying shades of meaning. The present perfect indicative (!) includes expressions like ‘I have been going out every night’. Use it when talking about action that has been happening (and still is).

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