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- Elsa: Obrigada por teres vindo. Elsa: Thank you for coming.
- Flávio: Não tens de agradecer. Estava preocupado. Flávio: You don't have to thank me. I was worried.
- Elsa: Não queria nada que me visses assim, mas preciso mesmo de falar com alguém. Elsa: I really didn't want you to see me like this, but I really need to talk to someone.
- Flávio: Os amigos servem para isso mesmo. O que é que se passou? Flávio: That's what friends are for. What happened?
- Elsa: Ai.. O Ângelo terminou o namoro. Elsa: Ah... Ângelo broke up with me.
- Disse-me que as coisas não podiam continuar mais como estavam. Eu contei-te, certo? He told me that things couldn't go on as they were. I told you, right?
- Flávio: Não acredito! Sim, contaste… Mas nunca pensei que ele fosse capaz de terminar tudo. Flávio: I don't believe it! Yes, you did… But I never thought he would be able to end everything.
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agradecerto thank, appreciate aguentarto hold up, withstand, bear arranjar-seto get ready, get dressed, arrange oneself o cacowreck capazcapable DispostoWilling encomendarto place an order EnlouquecerTo go crazy enquantowhile, as long as, whereas lutarto fight mesmosame, even, indeed, really o namoradoboyfriend a oportunidadeopportunity, chance preocupadoconcerned, worried RealmenteActually, truly, really, indeed
Expressions
Nem pensar!No way! andaCome on, Go ahead Fazer o pedidoPlace the order Terminar o namoroBreak up, End the relationship Ainda queEven if, Although, Even though Se calharPerhaps, Maybe 
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Hey. Why does he say vai arranjar-te then vais arranjar-te. Are they not both second person imperatives?
Good question! The first one is an imperative (Vai arranjar-te. – Get yourself ready.) but the second one is the presente do indicativo (Vais arranjar-te – You are going to get yourself ready…)
Olá, no texto o Flávio disse o seguinte: “Vá, anda… Vai arranjar-te”.
Qual é a diferença entre Vá e Vai neste frase? Sāo ambos o imperativo?
Muito obrigado
Kieran
Olá! “Vá” aqui é uma simples interjeição que expressa encorajamento. Mas “vai” é o imperativo, sim, na segunda pessoa do singular 🙂
Muito obrigado, Joseph. Agora entendo.
Olá! Porque é que usamos o Presente do Conjuntivo em “enquanto eu faço o pedido”? Porque é que não fica o Futuro do Conjuntivo? Obrigada!
Olá 🙂 O futuro do conjuntivo geralmente usa-se para descrever uma eventual ação no futuro, mas aqui fala-se de uma ação já garantida que ocorre quase no momento imediato da fala, por isso o presente soa natural aqui. Nota: Este é o presente do indicativo, não do conjuntivo.
Obrigada:)
I get the conjugation but really need more practice with this in order to get my head around it! Is there a (free) site where I could do some more exercises?
I don’t know of any free sites, but since you’re already a Practice Portuguese member, you can practice in our Verbs section 😉
This will let you access exercises for imperfeito do conjuntivo for hundreds of Portuguese verbs.
There is also a unit for this tense (if you didn’t do this already): Imperfect Subjunctive
Hi. It’s precisely because I’ve used up all the resources for this particular tense on PP that I’m looking for more elsewhere. 😉
Ah okay, you’ve been busy! 😁 Well I’m sorry I don’t know of another place to practice, but maybe another member will. Another idea is to add some phrases with this tense to your Smart Review, and then you can review them over and over. You can also “suggest a phrase” from the translator tool, and someone from our team can work on adding more.
Olá, I have pushed the conjuntivo foreward as log as I could, but now I have to face it, since it’s now one of the last things that is left to do. Guess it’s going to be at least an other year for it to get into the brain. 🤨 Boy! It ‘s HARD!! While doing the Imperfeito do conjuntivo lesson 4 there is the following frase; Ele avisou-nos para que estivéssemos atentos. I don’t really understand the function of ‘para’ in this sentence. Could it be left out? (or ‘que’ for that matter) Or are they fixed together and are you getting a strange sentence with something missing if you do skip either one?
Ficarei grato se mo explicares. (2nd person futuro do conjuntivo aplicado coreto? O falso?)😅 Muito obrigado!
It is definitely hard, but hang in there!
As the connecting preposition, ‘para’ is a critical part of the sentence. It’s ‘que’ that’s optional and doesn’t add any specific meaning on its own, it simply affects the wording, because it triggers the subjunctive after it. You can phrase the sentence just with ‘para’, but then you get the infinitive instead:
– Ele avisou-nos para que estivéssemos atentos = Ele avisou-nos para estarmos atentos
These sentences are interchangeable. I would say the infinitive is simpler and hence preferred, but we wanted to demonstrate uses of the subjunctive and give everyone a challenge 🙂
Olá, Isso faz muito sentido. Eu percebi. Obrigado pela explicação muito clara