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The tenses correspond to: Present (presente): "I do" or "I am doing". Preterite (pretérito, or pretérito perfeito): "I did" or "I have done". Imperfect (imperfeito, or pretérito imperfeito): "I did", "I used to do", "I was doing". Pluperfect (mais-que-perfeito, or pretérito mais-que-perfeito): "I had done".
EP: De repente, vimo-nos perdidos na floresta. BP: De repente, nos vimos perdidos na floresta. In the third person, the reflexive pronoun has a form of its own, se, or si if preceded by a preposition. Examples: EP: Hoje ele levantou-se cedo. BP: Hoje ele se levantou cedo. EP: Eles lavam-se sempre muito bem. BP: Eles se lavam sempre muito bem.
Like most Indo-European languages, including English, Portuguese classifies most of its lexicon into four word classes: verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs.These are "open" classes, in the sense that they readily accept new members, by coinage, borrowing, or compounding.
Regular and irregular verbs. A regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical pattern, or one of the typical patterns, of the language to which it belongs. A verb whose conjugation follows a different pattern is called an irregular verb. This is one instance of the distinction between regular and irregular inflection, which can ...
The English form Tetum is derived from Portuguese, rather than from modern Tetum. Consequently, some people regard Tetun as more appropriate. [5] Although this coincides with the favoured Indonesian form, and the variant with m has a longer history in English, Tetun has also been used by some Portuguese-educated Timorese, such as José Ramos-Horta and Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo.
Pico do Fogo. Pico do Fogo (Portuguese: [ˈpiku du ˈfoɡu]; lit. 'Peak of Fire') is an active stratovolcano located on the island of Fogo, Cape Verde, rising to 2,829 metres (9,281 ft) above sea level. [2] The main cone last erupted in 1680, causing mass emigration from the island. [3] A subsidiary vent erupted in 1995.
CORCORAN, California (Reuters) - California is so heavily Democratic that neither the party's presidential candidate Kamala Harris nor her Republican rival Donald Trump even bother to campaign ...
A verb (from Latin verbum 'word') is part of speech that in syntax generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive. In many languages, verbs are inflected ...