Past Tense

Mauro is panicking after mistakenly sending a private letter to his mother!

You’ve learned about irregular verbs and how to conjugate some of them in the present tense. If they’re irregular in the present, they’re usually irregular in other tenses too. There are no consistent rules to follow for this category, so the only way to learn the different conjugations is to study each one and practice, […]

In this Learning Note, we’ll discuss a verb tense called the pretérito imperfeito do indicativo. That’s a pretty long name, so for simplicity, let’s refer to it as the ! This tense is known by a number of different names in English: past continuous, past progressive, or imperfect past. The imperfeito refers to something that […]

Hugo’s son Tiago wonders how the world was before his time, causing his father to take a trip down memory lane.

-ER Verbs in the Simple Past Regular verbs in the -ER group include and . Let’s see how they would be conjugated in the :

The English simple past tense (e.g. “I went”, “We ate”, “You finished”) corresponds to the Portuguese . As with the present tense, conjugating regular Portuguese verbs in this tense is easier once you learn the patterns for each verb group. Examples of some regular verbs in the -AR group include , , and . Let’s […]