Introduction to Verb Conjugation in Portuguese

So when we talk about verb conjugation in Portuguese, there are many aspects that we have to think there.

It, it, it's a little bit overwhelming, right? So today I want to bring, to teach you to explain the basics, so to make this simpler and less overwhelmed, uh, and less overwhelming, so you can really understand how-- what things you should consider when thinking about verb conjugation.

So the first-- the four things that we are going to start talking about are pessoa, número, tempo e modo.

So what all this [risada] mean? Let's talk about this.

Vamos começar falando sobre pessoa.

Let's start talking about the term pessoa.

So pessoa means person, but when you are talking about conjugation, it means is the subject, right? Is the person that is doing the action, right? So in Portuguese, we have the officially version and the [risada] informal version, the not official version.

So this is confusing when you are learning Portuguese because, oh, you see grammar books, and the grammar books sa-say one thing, and Brazilians use a completely different language.

This can be very confusing.

So I'm here to help you.

So let's talk about the f-first, the officially, uh, the official, uh, information that you find in grammar books, and then I'm going to tell you how this is different from real spoken Portuguese, okay? So officially, we have six persons, né? Primeira pessoa, eu, which means I.

Segunda pessoa, tu, which means you.

Terceira pessoa, ele, ela, which means he or she.

Then we have the first person plural, primeira pessoa do plural, nós, we.

Then we have vós, which is the second person plural.

And then we have eles e elas, the third person plural, which means they.

So in Portuguese, we have two versions of they.

We have the feminine and the masculine, eles, elas, okay? Uh, but as I said, in practice, w-the way that really, we really use the language is not exactly like that.

So let's see a few differences that you find from books and real language.

And one very important difference is the use of the pronoun você instead of the pronoun tu.

So você, usually you don't see in the grammar books in conjugations.

Uh, if you go to conjugation websites, you won't see pronoun você.

But this is the pronoun that is mostly used in Brazil.

This is the one that I use.

It also means you, uh, but it's conjugating the third person singular.