For today’s interactive feature, we’re going to talk about the different verb tenses. The question is: which is the most difficult Portuguese verb tense for you?

There are a few verb tenses that I find tricky, like the future subjunctive tense (for, estiver, etc), since when I’m speaking, I sometimes confuse the eles/elas conjugation with the perfect preterite tense (past simple), since some of the conjugations are similar. But the tense that I find the most difficult is pretérito mais-que-perfeito, which never fails to perplex me. Since it’s not used very often in spoken Portuguese, I try to avoid it.

What about you?