Portuguese Verbs

This page contains a table including the following: Portuguese/Brazilian verbs and tenses. Try to memorize the way they're used because they're very important in communication, and might be very helpful to convey your most important expressions. Make sure to visit our Learn Portuguese page, which contains several lessons that might help you in your learning process.

A verb in Portuguese is just like English used as a word that represents an action or a state of being. (go, strike, travel, and exist are examples of verbs). A verb is the essential part of the predicate of a sentence. The grammatical forms of verbs include number, person, and tense.

THINGS TO REMEMBER:

In Portuguese, the PRESENT TENSE is fairly simple. An ‘I’ verb always ends in ‘o’. The ‘you’, ‘he’, ‘she’ and ‘it’ verbs all end in ‘a’. The ‘we’ verbs end in ‘amos’. The ‘they’ verbs end in ‘am’.

In Portuguese, the PAST TENSE goes by a similar pattern, wherein the ‘you’, ‘he’, ‘she’, and ‘it’ verbs all have the same ending whilst the ‘I’, ‘we’ and ‘they’ verbs are each different.

In Portuguese, the FUTURE TENSE also goes by this pattern.

All verb endings also depend on whether the verbs are ‘AR’, ‘IR’, ‘ER’.

As you can see, the table above shows the Portuguese verbs in the present tense, the past tense, and the future tense, and also as a question (interrogative form).

Present Tense in Portuguese

The present tense in Portuguese is the form of the verb that may be used to express: action at the present, a state of being; an occurrence in the (very) near future; or an action that occurred in the past and continues up to the present.

Here is an example:

Past Tense in Portuguese

The past tense in Portuguese is a verb tense expressing action, activity, state or being in the past of the current moment (in an absolute tense system), or prior to some other event, whether that is past, present, or future (in a relative tense system).

Here is an example:

Future Tense in Portuguese

In Portuguese, the future tense is a verb form that marks the event described by the verb as not having happened yet, but expected to happen in the future (in an absolute tense term), or to happen subsequent to some other event, whether that is past, present, or future (in a relative tense term).

Here is an example:

THINGS TO REMEMBER: Verbs ending with ‘–se’ highlights the reflexive verb in Portuguese, wherein it means ‘one self’ eg. ‘lembrar-se’= to remember. It represents something that is often personal and affects the individual.

Below is a vocabulary training for verbs in Portuguese or Brazilian with its pronunciation, try to memorize the verbs below, because they’re very important and used daily.

I hope the content of this page was useful to you, and that you learned some Portuguese verbs such as present tense, past tense, and future tense. Try to memorize them to be able to use them in your daily conversation.

Make sure to check out our Learn Portuguese page, which contains several lessons that might help you in your learning process.

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