Present Subjunctive

O presente do subjuntivo

Introduction

Introdução

The Portuguese subjunctive mood is one of the most difficult concepts for English speakers to learn. While English has a subjunctive mood, its grammatical formulations aren't quite as different from the indicative tenses.

You use the subjunctive for various reasons:

cases of desire
to express doubt
to make impersonal statements
to talk about impeding events

Portuguese also has a imperfect and future subjunctive that describes past and future events in the same way as above.

Vocabulary

Vocabulário

Play falar
to talk to speak
Play comer
to eat
Play pôr
to place to put (on, down)
Play sair
to leave to exit to go out

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