Comments on: Portuguese Verb Conjugation: Future Tense

By: paige

paige — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:36:53 +0000

Ter and Ir are not irregular verbs when in the future.

By: Felipe Mobus

Felipe Mobus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:20:08 +0000

The mentioned verbs are irregular. Better examples would be regular ones, such as the always-used-in-conjugation-tables “cantar”, “beber”, “partir”.

eu cantarei, beberei, partirei
você/ele cantará, beberá, partirá
nós cantaremos, beberemos, partiremos
vocês/eles cantarão, beberão, partirão.

Quick etymology lesson: this synthetic conjugation form actually comes from a older, still valid, analytic one, where you had infinitive verb + future of “haver”. In other words, “cantar hei, beber hei, partir hei” (or “hei de cantar, hei de beber, hei partir”. Eventually, this got contracted to “cantarei, beberei, partirei”. If you wanna sound really formal, the abovementioned analytic conjugation will impress your peers

Funny thing is, in current spoken portuguese, this synthetic form has alread fallen out favor to another analytic form, where you say future of “ir” + infitive verb, e.g. “vou cantar, vou beber, vou partir”. In some places, notably in Rio Grande do Sul, this is applied even for when “ir” is the main verb! “Vou ir ao cinema”, “vou ir embora” are commonly heard in that state.

By: Ana

Ana — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:52:27 +0000

yes, the first person is right, “ter” and “ir” are irregular verbs, they can sound regular if you look to this in the future, but actually they are IRREGULAR.
I m brazilian and i use the urbandictionary to improve my english, i laughed a lot when i saw these new topics about the Brazil, principally the thing about Minas Gerais, because its the state where i live in. But i don t speak this way, i don t liked to think that the american think the “mineiros” is all this way ^~

By: jeanne

jeanne — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:08:15 +0000

Muitas pessoas (brasileiros)confundem o presente com o passado na hora de escrever, por exemplo:

eles comerão – futuro
eles comeram – passado

Mas na hora de escrever o futuro usam “comeram” instead of “comerão.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:14:12 +0000

É muito legal,ver que vocês gostam da nossa língua e da nossa cultura.Eu vou começar a estudy inglish,alguem poderia me ajudar,posso ajudar com a língua Portuguesa.