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Irregular verbs
Irregular verbs change their roots throughout their conjugation. Here the most popualr irregular verbs:
Nº |
Portuguese |
English |
Nº |
Portuguese |
English |
1 |
aprazer |
to please |
14 |
pedir |
to ask for |
2 |
caber |
to fit |
15 |
perder |
To lose |
3 |
crer |
to believe |
16 |
poder |
can, may |
4 |
dar |
to give |
17 |
pôr |
to put |
5 |
dizer |
to say |
18 |
querer |
to want |
6 |
estar |
to be |
19 |
rir |
to laugh |
7 |
fazer |
to do, to make |
20 |
saber |
to know |
8 |
haver |
there to be |
21 |
ser |
to be |
9 |
ir |
to go |
22 |
ter |
to have |
10 |
ler |
to read |
23 |
trazer |
to bring |
11 |
medir |
To measure |
24 |
valer |
To be worth |
12 |
ouvir |
to hear |
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ver |
to see |
13 |
odiar |
to hate |
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vir |
to come |
Important irregular verbs:
Voices
The Portuguese verbs can be used in three voices (vozes): Voz activa, voz passiva and voz reflexiva.
- Voz activa (active voice), the agent or the doer is the verb subject.
- Cristobal Colón descobriu Perú (Cristobal Colón discovered Peru)
- Voz passiva (passive voice), the patient is the verb subject. In Portuguese, the passive voice is made by compound verbs (the verb to be in permanent meaning ser + main verb past participle).
- Perú foi descoberto por Cristobal Colón (Peru was discovered by Crsitobal Colón).
- Voz reflexiva (reflexive voice), this voice points the agent of a verb is the patient of the same verb too. This voice is made using the verbs in the active voice and using the objects in the reflexive form
- Carlos se cortou. (Carlos has cut himself.)
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