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BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE VERB

pesar

to weigh

  • #267 most used
  • Regular -ar verb
  • Gerund: pesando
  • Past participle: pesado

Conjugation

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Present

Presente · now, habits and facts

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

Past

Pretérito Perfeito · finished actions

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

Future

Futuro com ir · plans: “going to”

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

Imperfect

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

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

Conditional

Futuro do Pretérito · “would”

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

Present subjunctive

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

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

Past subjunctive

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

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

Future subjunctive

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

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

Imperative

Imperativo · requests and orders

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

How to use pesar

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

  1. Present

    Essa mala pesa mais de vinte quilos.

    This suitcase weighs more than twenty kilos.

  2. Past

    A médica me pesou e disse que está tudo bem.

    The doctor weighed me and said everything's fine.

  3. Future

    Vou pesar a farinha antes de misturar.

    I'm going to weigh the flour before mixing.

  4. Imperfect

    Quando nasceu, ele pesava três quilos e meio.

    When he was born, he weighed three and a half kilos.

  5. Conditional

    Essa mentira pesaria na minha consciência.

    That lie would weigh on my conscience.

  6. Present subjunctive

    Espero que a mala não pese mais de vinte e três.

    I hope the suitcase doesn't weigh more than twenty-three.

  7. Past subjunctive

    Se a caixa pesasse menos, eu mandaria pelo correio.

    If the box weighed less, I'd send it by mail.

  8. Future subjunctive

    Se pesar mais que isso, você paga excesso.

    If it weighs more than that, you pay for excess baggage.

  9. Imperative

    Pese as frutas antes de ir ao caixa.

    Weigh the fruit before going to the checkout.

Good to know

  • "Pesar na consciência" is to weigh on your conscience.

Where you hear pesar

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

Brazilian Portuguese · Intermediate Level 3

  • A Alice pesa três quilos e duzentos. Alice weighs three kilos two hundred.
  • A Maria pesou três quilos quando nasceu. Maria weighed three kilos when she was born.
  • No Natal, ela vai pesar três quilos e meio. At Christmas, she's going to weigh three and a half kilos.
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Intermediate Level 3 · pesa

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