Speaking is one thing, but writing... Anyone who has never had difficulty arranging words on paper should cast the first stone. The Portuguese language is wonderful, it is certainly among the most beautiful and interesting in the world, but, unfortunately, it can cause countless doubts even for those who are used to the language. This is because Portuguese has numerous peculiarities, grammatical details that have given our language the reputation of being difficult. Nothing that cannot be resolved with a little dedication and patience. How about trying?
To help you get “on your best” with the Portuguese language and thus avoid grammatical mistakes in the written modality, Brasil Escola has prepared ten Portuguese tips on verbal doubts. These are frequent doubts among speakers, but which will now be definitively clarified. Happy reading, enjoy the tips and good studies!
Ten tips from Portuguese: Verbal Doubts
Tip 1: A/There
To indicate past tense, the verb to have is used. If you are in doubt, replace the verb to have the verbs
to have or to do: We met there is ten years / we met does/has ten years.Tip 2: Like/Like (infinitive verb)
Remember: an auxiliary tense verb must always be followed by an infinitive verb. Note: You will enjoy my new Facebook post.
Tip 3: Discriminate/Discriminate
The two words exist and, although they are similar, they have different meanings. Describe means absolve, exonerate, exempt from crime. Example: The deputy asked to decriminalization (nouns for the verb to discriminate) of marijuana for therapeutic purposes.
Discriminate means to distinguish, separate, differentiate, and may or may not present the sense of prejudice: Ex.1: The student was discriminated for liking to play with dolls. Ex.2: discriminated all the medications and put them on the shelf.
Tip 4: Loss/Loss
miss it is an inflection of the verb “to lose” that appears in the 1st and 3rd person singular of the present subjunctive and in the 3rd person singular of the imperative. Example: No miss the deadline to enroll in Enem.
Loss it is a noun whose meaning is to deprive yourself of someone or something you had. It will always be accompanied by an article, a pronoun or a numeral. See: She suffered two losses in less than a year, so it's sad.
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Tip 5: Intervened / Intervened
Derived from the verb “to come”, the verb “to intervene” follows the conjugation rule for simple verbs, although it is a compound verb. Many people end up confusing the conjugation of this verb with the conjugation of the verb “to see” due to some morphological similarities between them. So the correct thing is: The United Nations intervened in the Middle East conflict.
Tip 6: Watch/Watch
The verb "to watch" has more than one meaning. When presenting the sense of seeing, it must be accompanied by a preposition: I watched the Disney's new movie in the cinema.
When to present the sense of help, accompany or advise it is direct transitive, that is, it has no preposition: I I attended a person in line at the bank (helped/advised).
Tip 7: Adequate/Adequate
Suit it is adefective verb, that is, a verb that has flaws in its conjugation. In the present tense of the verb “adequate”, only the first and second plural persons are conjugated: She is not proper for the company profile (She does not fit = wrong).
Tip 8: For Rent/Rent
Remember that the subject of the sentence must agree with the verb. For example: for rent houses (houses is in the plural, so the correct conjugation is for rent). If there are any doubts, put the prayer in passive voice: Houses are rented.
Tip 9: Missing/missing
As in the previous tip, the verb must agree with the subject of the sentence. Example: One day left for the start of the vacation/two weeks to go for the start of the vacation. When in doubt, ask who or what performs the action of the verb: what is missing? One day to go/two weeks to go.
Tip 10: 15 years ago/15 years ago
Beware of redundancy. Using “there” and “behind” in the same sentence is an example of pleonasm. If you choose one, exclude the other. Look: There is 15 years old traveled to Japan/15 years old back traveled to Japan.
By Luana Castro
Graduated in Letters
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PEREZ, Luana Castro Alves. "Ten Portuguese tips on verbs"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/gramatica/dez-dicas-portugues-sobre-verbos.htm. Accessed on June 27, 2021.
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