{"id":520,"date":"2009-04-08T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=486"},"modified":"2009-04-08T07:00:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T11:00:42","slug":"working-with-irregular-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/working-with-irregular-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Working with irregular verbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the frustrating things about learning a Romance language is conquering the irregular verbs, since they require memorization. Today we&#8217;re going to take a look at three irregular verbs in the present, past perfect, and past imperfect.<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>p\u00f4r <\/em>[to put]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Present:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eu <strong>ponho<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ele\/ela\/voc\u00ea <strong>p\u00f5e<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>N\u00f3s <strong>pomos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eles\/elas\/voc\u00eas <strong>p\u00f5em<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Past Perfect:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eu <strong>pus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ele\/ela\/voc\u00ea <strong>p\u00f4s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>N\u00f3s <strong>pusemos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eles\/elas\/voc\u00eas <strong>puseram<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Past Imperfect:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eu <strong>punha<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ele\/ela\/voc\u00ea <strong>punha<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>N\u00f3s <strong>p\u00fanhamos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eles\/elas\/voc\u00eas <strong>punham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>2. <em>poder<\/em> [to can\/be able to]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Present<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eu <strong>posso<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ele\/ela\/voc\u00ea <strong>pode<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>N\u00f3s <strong>podemos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eles\/elas\/voc\u00eas <strong>podem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Past perfect<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eu <strong>pude<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ele\/ela\/voc\u00ea <strong>p\u00f4de<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>N\u00f3s <strong>pudemos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eles\/elas\/voc\u00eas <strong>puderam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Past imperfect<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eu <strong>podia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ele\/ela\/voc\u00ea <strong>podia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>N\u00f3s <strong>pod\u00edamos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eles\/elas\/voc\u00eas <strong>podiam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3. <em>vir <\/em>[to come]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Present<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eu <strong>venho<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ele\/ela\/voc\u00ea <strong>vem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>N\u00f3s <strong>vimos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eles\/elas\/voc\u00eas <strong>v\u00ea<\/strong><strong>m<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Past perfect<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eu <strong>vim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ele\/ela\/voc\u00ea <strong>veio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>N\u00f3s <strong>viemos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eles\/elas\/voc\u00eas <strong>viera<\/strong><strong>m<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Past imperfect<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eu <strong>vinha<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ele\/ela\/voc\u00ea <strong>vinha<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>N\u00f3s <strong>v\u00ed<\/strong><strong>nhamos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eles\/elas\/voc\u00eas <strong>vinham<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the frustrating things about learning a Romance language is conquering the irregular verbs, since they require memorization. Today we&#8217;re going to take a look at three irregular verbs in the present, past perfect, and past imperfect. 1. p\u00f4r [to put] Present: Eu ponho Ele\/ela\/voc\u00ea p\u00f5e N\u00f3s pomos Eles\/elas\/voc\u00eas p\u00f5em Past Perfect: Eu pus&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/working-with-irregular-verbs\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6,1851],"tags":[51,97,119,126,166],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","category-learning","tag-conjugation","tag-irregular","tag-past","tag-present","tag-verbs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}