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BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE VERB

comer

to eat

  • #40 most used
  • Regular -er verb
  • Gerund: comendo
  • Past participle: comido

Conjugation

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Present

Presente · now, habits and facts

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

Past

Pretérito Perfeito · finished actions

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

Future

Futuro com ir · plans: “going to”

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

Imperfect

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

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

Conditional

Futuro do Pretérito · “would”

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

Present subjunctive

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

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

Past subjunctive

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

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

Future subjunctive

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

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

Imperative

Imperativo · requests and orders

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

How to use comer

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

  1. Present

    Eu como arroz e feijão quase todo dia.

    I eat rice and beans almost every day.

  2. Past

    A gente comeu uma feijoada deliciosa no sábado.

    We had a delicious feijoada on Saturday.

  3. Future

    O que vocês vão comer hoje à noite?

    What are you going to eat tonight?

  4. Imperfect

    Quando criança, eu não comia verdura.

    As a kid, I didn't eat vegetables.

  5. Conditional

    Eu comeria mais um pedaço de bolo.

    I'd eat another piece of cake.

  6. Present subjunctive

    A médica quer que eu coma menos sal.

    The doctor wants me to eat less salt.

  7. Past subjunctive

    Se você comesse devagar, aproveitaria mais.

    If you ate slowly, you'd enjoy it more.

  8. Future subjunctive

    Quando comer o acarajé, me conta se gostou.

    When you eat the acarajé, tell me if you liked it.

  9. Imperative

    Comam tudo, tem sobremesa depois!

    Eat everything, there's dessert after!

Where you hear comer

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

Brazilian Portuguese · Beginner Level 1

  • Eu como arroz e feijão. I eat rice and beans.
  • Eu comi muito! I ate a lot!
  • O que você vai comer? What are you going to eat?

Brazilian Portuguese · Beginner Level 2

  • Nós comemos juntos todo domingo. We eat together every Sunday.
  • Ontem nós comemos peixe. Yesterday we ate fish.
  • Nós vamos comer na casa da minha mãe. We're going to eat at my mother's house.
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I'm Very Hungry

Beginner Level 1 · comer

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This Is My Mother

Beginner Level 1 · Come mais!

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I Went, I Saw, I Ate

Beginner Level 1 · eu comi · você comeu · comeu bem · Você comeu bem?

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What Did You Do at the Weekend?

Beginner Level 2 · eu comi · você comeu

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We Went to an Island

Beginner Level 2 · nós comemos

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The Morning After

Beginner Level 3 · eles comeram

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When He Was Little

Beginner Level 3 · eu comia

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I Want You to Apply

Intermediate Level 1 · que você coma

Free 8
Nobody Had Thought of That

Intermediate Level 1 · comido

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For You to Arrive Early

Intermediate Level 1 · comerem

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I Wish She Would Stay

Intermediate Level 1 · comesse

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I Would Have Put More Cheese

Intermediate Level 2 · comido

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And 3 more lessons.

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