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- it drizzles
BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE VERB
garoar
to drizzle
- #438 most used
- Regular -ar verb
- Gerund: garoando
- Past participle: garoado
Conjugation
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Past
Pretérito Perfeito · finished actions
- it drizzled
Future
Futuro com ir · plans: “going to”
- it is going to drizzle
Imperfect
Pretérito Imperfeito · “used to” and “was …ing”
- it used to drizzle
Conditional
Futuro do Pretérito · “would”
- it would drizzle
Present subjunctive
Presente do Subjuntivo · wishes, doubts, “que …”
- (that) it drizzle
Past subjunctive
Imperfeito do Subjuntivo · “if I were”, “se …”
- (if) it drizzled
Future subjunctive
Futuro do Subjuntivo · “when” and “if” about the future
- (when) it drizzles
How to use garoar
One sentence for each tense, the way people say it.
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Present
Em São Paulo garoa quase toda tarde.
In São Paulo it drizzles almost every afternoon.
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Past
Garoou o dia inteiro e ninguém saiu de casa.
It drizzled all day and nobody left the house.
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Future
Vai garoar à noite, leve um casaco.
It's going to drizzle tonight, take a jacket.
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Imperfect
Garoava quando a gente saiu do cinema.
It was drizzling when we left the movie theater.
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Conditional
Sem a serra, garoaria menos nessa cidade.
Without the mountains, it would drizzle less in this town.
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Present subjunctive
Tomara que não garoe durante a corrida.
I hope it doesn't drizzle during the race.
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Past subjunctive
Se garoasse, a gente ficaria no bar.
If it drizzled, we'd stay in the bar.
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Future subjunctive
Se garoar, o jogo continua mesmo assim.
If it drizzles, the game goes on anyway.
Good to know
- "Garoa" is the fine rain São Paulo is famous for; heavier rain is "chuva".
Where you hear garoar
The lessons that teach a form of it, and how they say it.
Brazilian Portuguese · Intermediate Level 1
- Está garoando lá fora. It's drizzling outside.
- Ontem garoou à noite. Yesterday evening it drizzled.
- Talvez vá garoar amanhã. It may drizzle tomorrow.
Verbs like this one
The same pattern, on other verbs: regular -ar verb.