Portuguese Irregular Verbs
  • Dulce1 September 2014

    Many irregular verbs in Portuguese correspond to verbs that
    are also irregular in English. These are some of the oldest and most commonly
    used verbs in everyday communication.



    Examples of Portuguese irregular verbs that are also
    irregular in English:

    dar – to give



    dizer – to say



    dormir – to sleep



    estar – to be



    fazer – to make / to do



    ir – to go



    ler – to read



    pôr – to put



    saber – to know



    sair – to go out / to leave



    sentir – to feel



    ser – to be



    trazer – to bring



    ter – to have



    ver – to see



    vir – to come



    A good way to remember which verbs are irregular is by
    making a list that contains the English translation before the conjugation when
    the verbs are irregular in both languages. That way you can remember that ir, to
    go,     is irregular in Portuguese as in English.



    For example: ir –
    to go – eu vou, você vai, ele/ela vai, nós vamos, vocês vão, eles vão.



    Now do the same for the verbs in the list above and you’ll
    see that in no time you’ll have these verbs down pat. 



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