{"id":43,"date":"2007-08-01T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=43"},"modified":"2007-08-01T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T14:36:09","slug":"avoiding-the-verb-por","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/avoiding-the-verb-por\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding the verb P\u00f4r"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The verb <strong>p\u00f4r<\/strong> is a common, useful verb in Portuguese, both Brazilian and European. P\u00f4r means &#8216;to put or place,&#8217; and in it&#8217;s reflexive form, <strong>p\u00f4r-se<\/strong> means to become.<\/p>\n<p>Though useful, the verb is highly irregular, and many forms of the verb are on the difficult side for beginner speakers to pronounce, since they involve much nasalization.<\/p>\n<p>This is the present tense conjugation of the verb:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eu ponho, Voc\u00ea p\u00f5e, Nos pomos, Voc\u00eas p\u00f5em<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To my mind, this is unnecessarily difficult for the beginner Portuguese learner. The irregular verbs <strong>ir, ter, ser<\/strong>, and <strong>estar<\/strong> are absolutely necessary, but <strong>p\u00f4r<\/strong> is avoidable. It seems as though even Brazilians avoid this verb like the plague, except in the present tense Eu and Voc\u00ea forms.<\/p>\n<p>Much easier is to use the -ar verb <strong>colocar<\/strong>, which means exactly the same thing: &#8216;to put or place.&#8217; It is just way easier for a beginner to conjugate a simple -ar verb naturally than to wrestle with the myriad irregular forms of p\u00f4r, particularly in the past tenses. <strong>Colocar<\/strong> is one of those verbs ending in -car that change in some forms to include a &#8216;q&#8217; such as <strong>eu coloquei<\/strong><em> i put<\/em>, but this is hardly as complex as <strong>eu pus<\/strong> <em>i put<\/em> which follows no pattern whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAnother option, this one more colloquial, is <strong>botar<\/strong> <em>to put<\/em>. Botar is slightly different and is used for specific purposes in addition to the general idea of placement, including &#8216;putting on&#8217; clothing or shoes, for example.<\/p>\n<p>On form of <strong>p\u00f4r<\/strong> that is extremely common is <strong>posto<\/strong>, the past participled meaning <em>placed<\/em>. This form is even a common noun with many uses; <em>gas station<\/em>, for example, is <strong>posto de gasolina<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The verb p\u00f4r is a common, useful verb in Portuguese, both Brazilian and European. P\u00f4r means &#8216;to put or place,&#8217; and in it&#8217;s reflexive form, p\u00f4r-se means to become. Though useful, the verb is highly irregular, and many forms of the verb are on the difficult side for beginner speakers to pronounce, since they involve&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/avoiding-the-verb-por\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}