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Portuguese Pluperfect tense
The pluperfect tense is used to show temporal relationships in the past. It shows that one event happened before another, as in "I had already eaten dinner before you called". All regular verbs follow the one pattern, except for an accent in the "we" and "you" (plural) forms of the verbs, which change depending on whether the verb is "-ar", "-er" or "-ir".
The regular pluperfect tense is formed as follows:
I had spoken
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Eu falar |
a |
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You had spoken
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Tu falar |
as |
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He had spoken
(also ela, você) |
Ele falar |
a |
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We had spoken
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Nós falár
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amos
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BUT |
Nós comêramos
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Nós partíramos
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| You (p) had spoken |
Vós falár
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eis
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Vós comêreis
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Vós partíreis
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They were speaking
(also elas, vocês) |
Eles falar |
amos |
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Apr 15, 2008 11:47 | Views
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