Presente
What is happening now, habits, and general truths.
- eu me modernizo
- você / ele / ela / a gente se moderniza
- nós nos modernizamos
- vocês / eles / elas se modernizam
to modernize
Regular -ar verb, gerund modernizando-se, past participle modernizado.
Me, se, nos
In Brazil the pronoun comes before the verb, eu me modernizo, and before the participle, gerund, or infinitive: tinha se modernizado. Written commands put it after: modernize-se; speech says se moderniza.
A gente, the everyday we, takes the same form as você.
Enough to talk about the present, the past, and the future.
What is happening now, habits, and general truths.
The everyday past for a finished action.
The spoken future for plans and coming events: ir plus the infinitive.