Present tense irregular verbs
Important verbs that are irregular in the PRESENT tense: dar, ficar, dizer, fazer, ler, perder, querer, saber, trazer, ver, conseguir, dormir, pedir, sair, vir
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the present tense of irregular verbs
There are plenty of irregular verbs in the present tense (the present indicative). These are the essential ones that you need to memorize. Verbs ending in -ar present indicativeestar to beeuestouvocê, ele, elaestánósestamosvocês, eles, elasestão present indicativedar to giveeudouvocê, ele, eladánósdamosvocês, eles, elasdão Verbs ending in -er present indicativedizer to…
Portuguese ~ or verbs
Is there no end to the suffering? It’s not enough that we have to learn to conjugate 3 different verb types (the ar, ei & ir endings). There is yet another group: the Portuguese ~or verbs! Sim, e não. The good news is, there are only a few of these actually used and: their conjugations…
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The present tense (the present indicative) is formed depending on the verb endings ~ar verbs, ~er verbs and ~ir verbs. Follow these examples to understand the patterns. present indicativefalar to speak, talkeufalovocê, ele, elafalanósfalamosvocês, eles, elasfalam present indicativeentender to understandeuentendovocê, ele, elaentendenósentendemosvocês, eles, elasentendem present indicativepartir to leave, departeupartovocê, ele,…
the present tense of ~er verbs
present indicativecomer to eateucomovocê, ele, elacomenóscomemosvocês, eles, elascomem present indicativebater to hit, beateubatovocê, ele, elabatenósbatemosvocês, eles, elasbatem present indicativeacontecer to happeneuaconteçovocê, ele, elaacontecenósacontecemosvocês, eles, elasacontecem * More accurately called, the present indicative tense.
the present tense of ~ir verbs
✻ More accurately called, the present indicative tense. There aren’t many ~ir verbs. The most common include: ir vir sair cair abrir pedir seguir dormir partir servir decidir repetir proibir assistir despedir permitir conseguir present indicativepartir to leave, departeupartovocê, ele, elapartenóspartimosvocês, eles, elaspartem
the present tense of ~ar verbs
The present tense (the present indicative) of ~ar ending verbs is best revealed by these examples: present indicativefalar to speak, talkeufalovocê, ele, elafalanósfalamosvocês, eles, elasfalam present indicativegostar to likeeugostovocê, ele, elagostanósgostamosvocês, eles, elasgostam present indicativemorar to live, resideeumorovocê, ele, elamoranósmoramosvocês, eles, elasmoram
the present subjunctive tense
Use the present subjunctive tense to talk about things that are plausible yet uncertain to happen right now: in the present. Words that usually trigger this tense: espero que (I hope that…) quero que (I want that…) é importante que (It’s important that…) Forming Take the 1st-person present root and…
Lição 7: ensino
The Preposition de In Portuguese the de is used liberally for things like connecting parts of a sentence together and, to make clear of what is being talked about. Get used to saying things like, of the morning rather than, in the morning; the car of hers rather than, her car. This will start to…
Lição 3: ensino
And now, você fala um pouco — um pouco de Português! Você entende? When you don’t entende (understand), you say: Eu não entendo. Get used to saying this 😉 We’re ignoring the nós (we), you all & they (vocês) conjugations because you don’t need them now. contractions do & da | using mais | the…
Lesson 6: grammar
future tense – using IR | onde | trabalhar
Lesson 3: grammar
articles | formal address | present: er verbs | querer