conduzir — Portuguese conjugation

to drive

Frequency#154Irregular

Indicative

Present (Presente) Irregular

The presente covers routines, states, and immediate future with adverbs like hoje or amanhã. One present form covers both English simple and progressive readings in most situations.

Ela estuda português todas as noites.

PronounPortugueseEnglish
euconduzoI drive
tuconduzesyou drive
vocêconduzyou drive
ele/elaconduzhe/she/it drives
nósconduzimoswe drive
vósconduzisyou (pl.) drive
vocêsconduzemyou (pl.) drive
eles/elasconduzemthey drive

Preterite (Pretérito perfeito simples) Regular

The pretérito perfeito simples is a sharp, completed past. In European Portuguese it is the standard story-telling past; Brazilian usage often prefers the compound form in speech while keeping the simple for narrative and writing.

Ontem escreveu a carta inteira de uma vez.

PronounPortugueseEnglish
euconduziI drove
tuconduzisteyou drove
vocêconduziuyou drove
ele/elaconduziuhe/she/it drove
nósconduzimoswe drove
vósconduzistesyou (pl.) drove
vocêsconduziramyou (pl.) drove
eles/elasconduziramthey drove

Imperfect (Pretérito imperfeito) Regular

The imperfeito describes past background, repeated actions, and how things used to be. Contrast it with the simple preterite for the “main event” line of a story.

Quando era criança, brincava na praia.

PronounPortuguese
euconduzia
tuconduzias
vocêconduzia
ele/elaconduzia
nósconduzíamos
vósconduzíeis
vocêsconduziam
eles/elasconduziam

Conditional (Condicional) Regular

The condicional is for polite offers, soft questions, and hypothetical “would” outcomes, and it often closes a se + imperfeito do subjuntivo chain in formal style.

Você poderia me explicar outra vez?

PronounPortugueseEnglish
euconduziriaI would drive
tuconduziriasyou would drive
vocêconduziriayou would drive
ele/elaconduziriahe/she/it would drive
nósconduziríamoswe would drive
vósconduziríeisyou (pl.) would drive
vocêsconduziriamyou (pl.) would drive
eles/elasconduziriamthey would drive

Future (Futuro do presente) Regular

The futuro do presente states future facts; in everyday conversation you will often hear ir + infinitive or even the present with a time adverb instead of the synthetic future.

Amanhã faremos a reunião mais cedo.

PronounPortugueseEnglish
euconduzireiI will drive
tuconduzirásyou will drive
vocêconduziráyou will drive
ele/elaconduziráhe/she/it will drive
nósconduziremoswe will drive
vósconduzireisyou (pl.) will drive
vocêsconduzirãoyou (pl.) will drive
eles/elasconduzirãothey will drive

Present perfect (Pretérito perfeito composto) Regular

The pretérito perfeito composto uses ter or haver plus the participle for a past that still touches the present or happens repeatedly up to now — a “have done” perfect with strong links to European norms.

Tenho pensado nisso há semanas.

PronounPortugueseEnglish
eutenho conduzidoI have driven
tutens conduzidoyou have driven
vocêtem conduzidoyou have driven
ele/elatem conduzidohe/she/it has driven
nóstemos conduzidowe have driven
vóstendes conduzidoyou (pl.) have driven
vocêstêm conduzidoyou (pl.) have driven
eles/elastêm conduzidothey have driven

Pluperfect (Mais-que-perfeito composto) Regular

The mais-que-perfeito composto is the pluperfect: an action was already finished before another past reference. It mirrors the English “had already”.

Já tinham saído quando chegámos.

PronounPortugueseEnglish
eutinha conduzidoI had driven
tutinhas conduzidoyou had driven
vocêtinha conduzidoyou had driven
ele/elatinha conduzidohe/she/it had driven
nóstínhamos conduzidowe had driven
vóstínheis conduzidoyou (pl.) had driven
vocêstinham conduzidoyou (pl.) had driven
eles/elastinham conduzidothey had driven

Conditional perfect (Condicional composto) Regular

The condicional composto expresses a counterfactual “would have” and appears with the right kind of if-clause in the subjunctive past for unreal conditions.

Teria aceite se tiveses avisado com antecedência.

PronounPortuguese
euteria conduzido
tuterias conduzido
vocêteria conduzido
ele/elateria conduzido
nósteríamos conduzido
vósteríeis conduzido
vocêsteriam conduzido
eles/elasteriam conduzido

Future perfect (Futuro composto) Regular

The futuro composto is the future-in-the-future: something will be finished before a later time. It is less frequent than the simple future but still useful for deadlines.

Até sexta, teremos lido tudo o relatório.

PronounPortugueseEnglish
euterei conduzidoI will have driven
tuterás conduzidoyou will have driven
vocêterá conduzidoyou will have driven
ele/elaterá conduzidohe/she/it will have driven
nósteremos conduzidowe will have driven
vóstereis conduzidoyou (pl.) will have driven
vocêsterão conduzidoyou (pl.) will have driven
eles/elasterão conduzidothey will have driven

Subjunctive

Present subjunctive (Conjuntivo presente) Regular

The present subjunctive appears after want, hope, fear, and impersonal triggers, and typically requires a new subject in the subordinate clause, just as in the other main Romance languages.

Espero que encontres o caminho fácil.

PronounPortuguese
euconduza
tuconduzas
vocêconduza
ele/elaconduza
nósconduzamos
vósconduzais
vocêsconduzam
eles/elasconduzam

Imperfect subjunctive (Conjuntivo pretérito imperf.) Regular

The imperfect subjunctive in se + subjunctive → condicional is the classic “if I were a rich man” line in European Portuguese, parallel to the Spanish -ra form.

Se tivesse mais tempo, aprenderia outro idioma.

PronounPortuguese
euconduzisse
tuconduzisses
vocêconduzisse
ele/elaconduzisse
nósconduzíssemos
vósconduzísseis
vocêsconduzissem
eles/elasconduzissem

Other forms

Imperative (affirmative) (Imperativo afirmativo) Regular

The affirmative imperative in Portuguese is built with tu, você, nós, vós, and vocês forms; Brazilian norms favour você/vocês with third-person present verb shapes.

Diga a verdade, por favor.

PronounPortuguese
tuconduze
vocêconduza
ele/elaconduza
nósconduzamos
vósconduzi
vocêsconduzam
eles/elasconduzam

Imperative (negative) (Imperativo negativo) Regular

Negative commands require não plus the present subjunctive for each person, which is a distinctive feature compared to other Romance systems that reuse present indicative in some slots.

Não falemos com pressa, está tudo calmo.

PronounPortuguese
tunão conduzas
vocênão conduza
ele/elanão conduza
nósnão conduzamos
vósnão conduzais
vocêsnão conduzam
eles/elasnão conduzam