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I thought partir = to leave?
Partir can mean to leave, but it also means ‘to break’, especially in European Portuguese. The Brazilians prefer quebrar.
The verb partir can mean to leave, for another country for example. Ele parte para os Estados Unidos amanhã. To leave the house in the morning we use more the verb ‘sair’
Eu saio de casa ás 7h todos os dias.
Woah, that was a lot to take in! 😳
It feels like we jumped from beginners to intermediate… so many verbs, and the past tense is hard! 😲
Hopefully my brain will recover lol. 😝
It was just a run, you are not expected to learn them all just now, you can go over them again when you revise the course. However it is a good idea to copy them out into a note pad. For revision purposes 😊
Your brain will recover for sure! 😋
So ‘we speak’ and ‘we commece’ sound the same in the present tense as they do in the past tense?
Hi Cassie!
Yes, basically they do. Isn’t it great?
The verbs ending in -er and -ir are also the same for the nós form. Context will allow us to see if we are talking about the present or the past. For example
Ontem jantámos fora – yesterday we ate out.
Na semana passada comemos naquele restaurante novo – last week we ate in that new restaurant.
Ha, I’m not that good on context yet when listening to Portugues!!!
You will get there eventually. Takes a little time and patience 🙂