Portuguese verbs are classified as: regular, irregular, anomalous, defective and abundant.
• Regular: are those in which the stem remains the same throughout the conjugation.
Example: verb to sing.
| Gift | Perfect |
| Radical | Termination | Radical | Termination |
| Cant | O | Cant | Hey |
| Cant | at | Cant | aste |
| Cant | The | Cant | or |
| Cant | loves | Cant | loves |
| Cant | oh | Cant | astes |
| Cant | am | Cant | plow |
• Irregulars: they are verbs whose radicals change or whose endings do not follow the model of the conjugation to which they belong.
Example: verb listen.
| Gift | Perfect |
| Radical | Termination | Radical | Termination |
| listen | O | Or V | i |
| Or V | are you | Or V | this |
| Or V | and | Or V | u |
| Or V | we go | Or V | we go |
| Or V | is | Or V | these |
| Or V | in | Or V | go |
• Anomalous: verbs that have more than one radical when conjugated.
Example: verb to be and to go.
In the verb to be different radicals occur, note the difference between: be it was.
In the verb to go, in the same way: go, go, go.
• Defective: not present in all pushups.
Examples:
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| verb abolish | recover verb |
| Present tense | Present tense |
| Me # | Me # |
| you abolish | You # |
| he abolishes | He # |
| we abolish | we get back |
| you abolish | you repossible |
| they abolish | They # |
• Abundant: have two or more equivalent forms.
Example:
| accept | accepted | accepted |
| light up | lit | lit |
| correct | adjusted | right |
| to elect | elected | elected |
| emerge | emerged | emerged |
| deliver | delivered | delivered |
| to fill | stuffed | full |
| expel | expelled | expelled |
| extinguish | extinct | extinct |
| fry | fried | fried |
| immerse | immersed | immersed |
| print out | printed | printed |
| insert | inserted | insert |
| clean | cleaned up | clean |
| kill | killed | dead |
By Marina Cabral
Specialist in Portuguese Language and Literature
Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:
SILVA, Marina Cabral da. "Classification of Verbs"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/gramatica/classificacao-dos-verbos.htm. Accessed on June 27, 2021.
