Presente
What is happening now, habits, and general truths.
- eu pouso
- você / ele / ela / a gente pousa
- nós pousamos
- vocês / eles / elas pousam
to land
Regular -ar verb, gerund pousando, past participle pousado.
Conjugated like custar, dançar, botar, adicionar, voar, apaixonar-se
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.
Past habits, descriptions, and ongoing background.
What is happening right now: estar plus the gerund.
What was going on at a moment in the past: estava plus the gerund.
Orders and advice, as written; the subject in parentheses is not spoken. In everyday speech much of Brazil says fala for fale.
Telling someone not to do something: não plus the present subjunctive.
A past action completed before another past action: tinha plus the participle.
The future of written Portuguese; speech uses ir plus the infinitive instead.
Polite requests, wishes, and hypotheses: “would …”.
Something repeated or still going on up to now: tenho estudado, I have been studying. Not a finished past.
After wishes, doubts, feelings, and phrases like para que or talvez.
Hypotheses with se, polite wishes, and the subjunctive in the past.
A possible future after se, quando, or assim que: quando eu puder.
An infinitive with its own subject, after para, antes de, or sem.
Regrets and hypotheses about the past: se eu tivesse sabido…
What would have happened: “would have …”.
The subjunctive for an action already completed: espero que tenha chegado.
A future action completed first: quando eu tiver terminado.
An action finished before a future moment, or a guess about the past.
The pluperfect of literature and formal writing; speech says tinha plus the participle.