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BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE VERB

acreditar

to believe

  • #65 most used
  • Regular -ar verb
  • Gerund: acreditando
  • Past participle: acreditado

Conjugation

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Present

Presente · now, habits and facts

  1. eu I believe
  2. você, ele, ela, a gente you believe
  3. nós we believe
  4. vocês, eles, elas you all believe

Past

Pretérito Perfeito · finished actions

  1. eu I believed
  2. você, ele, ela, a gente you believed
  3. nós we believed
  4. vocês, eles, elas you all believed

Future

Futuro com ir · plans: “going to”

  1. eu I am going to believe
  2. você, ele, ela, a gente you are going to believe
  3. nós we are going to believe
  4. vocês, eles, elas you all are going to believe

Imperfect

Pretérito Imperfeito · “used to” and “was …ing”

  1. eu I used to believe
  2. você, ele, ela, a gente you used to believe
  3. nós we used to believe
  4. vocês, eles, elas you all used to believe

Conditional

Futuro do Pretérito · “would”

  1. eu I would believe
  2. você, ele, ela, a gente you would believe
  3. nós we would believe
  4. vocês, eles, elas you all would believe

Present subjunctive

Presente do Subjuntivo · wishes, doubts, “que …”

  1. eu (that) I believe
  2. você, ele, ela, a gente (that) you believe
  3. nós (that) we believe
  4. vocês, eles, elas (that) you all believe

Past subjunctive

Imperfeito do Subjuntivo · “if I were”, “se …”

  1. eu (if) I believed
  2. você, ele, ela, a gente (if) you believed
  3. nós (if) we believed
  4. vocês, eles, elas (if) you all believed

Future subjunctive

Futuro do Subjuntivo · “when” and “if” about the future

  1. eu (when) I believe
  2. você, ele, ela, a gente (when) you believe
  3. nós (when) we believe
  4. vocês, eles, elas (when) you all believe

Imperative

Imperativo · requests and orders

  1. você believe!
  2. vocês believe! (all of you)

How to use acreditar

One sentence for each tense, the way people say it.

  1. Present

    Eu acredito em você, vai dar certo.

    I believe in you, it's going to work out.

  2. Past

    Ninguém acreditou na minha história.

    Nobody believed my story.

  3. Future

    Você não vai acreditar no que aconteceu.

    You're not going to believe what happened.

  4. Imperfect

    Quando criança, eu acreditava em Papai Noel.

    As a kid, I believed in Santa Claus.

  5. Conditional

    Eu não acreditaria nisso se não visse.

    I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it.

  6. Present subjunctive

    Quero que você acredite em mim dessa vez.

    I want you to believe me this time.

  7. Past subjunctive

    Se ele acreditasse mais em si mesmo, iria longe.

    If he believed in himself more, he'd go far.

  8. Future subjunctive

    Se você acreditar, metade do caminho está feita.

    If you believe, half the road is done.

  9. Imperative

    Acredite, vale muito a pena.

    Believe me, it's really worth it.

Good to know

  • Acreditar takes "em": acredito em você; "acredita?" is "can you believe it?".

Where you hear acreditar

The lessons that teach a form of it, and how they say it.

Brazilian Portuguese · Beginner Level 1

  • Eu acredito em você. I believe in you.
  • Ele não acreditou. He didn't believe it.
  • Você não vai acreditar! You're not going to believe it!

Brazilian Portuguese · Beginner Level 3

  • Eu não acredito! I don't believe it!
  • Ela não acreditou. She didn't believe it.
  • Você não vai acreditar. You won't believe it.
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Who's Going to Win?

Beginner Level 1 · Não acredito!

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The Morning After

Beginner Level 3 · acreditar · Você acredita?

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Will You Marry Me?

Intermediate Level 1 · Não acredito!

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If I Knew How to Speak Portuguese

Intermediate Level 2 · acredita · Ele não acredita.

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The First Day of the Rest of Our Lives

Intermediate Level 2 · acreditado

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Without Anyone Seeing

Intermediate Level 3 · acredita

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Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: regular -ar verb.