identificar — Portuguese conjugation

to identify

Frequency#257Irregular

Indicative

Present (Presente) Regular

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
euidentificoI identify
tuidentificasyou identify
vocêidentificayou identify
ele/elaidentificahe/she/it identifies
nósidentificamoswe identify
vósidentificaisyou (pl.) identify
vocêsidentificamyou (pl.) identify
eles/elasidentificamthey identify

Preterite (Pretérito perfeito simples) Irregular

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
euidentifiqueiI identified
tuidentificasteyou identified
vocêidentificouyou identified
ele/elaidentificouhe/she/it identified
nósidentificamoswe identified
vósidentificastesyou (pl.) identified
vocêsidentificaramyou (pl.) identified
eles/elasidentificaramthey identified

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
euidentificava
tuidentificavas
vocêidentificava
ele/elaidentificava
nósidentificávamos
vósidentificáveis
vocêsidentificavam
eles/elasidentificavam

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
euidentificariaI would identify
tuidentificariasyou would identify
vocêidentificariayou would identify
ele/elaidentificariahe/she/it would identify
nósidentificaríamoswe would identify
vósidentificaríeisyou (pl.) would identify
vocêsidentificariamyou (pl.) would identify
eles/elasidentificariamthey would identify

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
euidentificareiI will identify
tuidentificarásyou will identify
vocêidentificaráyou will identify
ele/elaidentificaráhe/she/it will identify
nósidentificaremoswe will identify
vósidentificareisyou (pl.) will identify
vocêsidentificarãoyou (pl.) will identify
eles/elasidentificarãothey will identify

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 identificadoI have identified
tutens identificadoyou have identified
vocêtem identificadoyou have identified
ele/elatem identificadohe/she/it has identified
nóstemos identificadowe have identified
vóstendes identificadoyou (pl.) have identified
vocêstêm identificadoyou (pl.) have identified
eles/elastêm identificadothey have identified

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 identificadoI had identified
tutinhas identificadoyou had identified
vocêtinha identificadoyou had identified
ele/elatinha identificadohe/she/it had identified
nóstínhamos identificadowe had identified
vóstínheis identificadoyou (pl.) had identified
vocêstinham identificadoyou (pl.) had identified
eles/elastinham identificadothey had identified

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 identificado
tuterias identificado
vocêteria identificado
ele/elateria identificado
nósteríamos identificado
vósteríeis identificado
vocêsteriam identificado
eles/elasteriam identificado

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 identificadoI will have identified
tuterás identificadoyou will have identified
vocêterá identificadoyou will have identified
ele/elaterá identificadohe/she/it will have identified
nósteremos identificadowe will have identified
vóstereis identificadoyou (pl.) will have identified
vocêsterão identificadoyou (pl.) will have identified
eles/elasterão identificadothey will have identified

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
euidentifique
tuidentifiques
vocêidentifique
ele/elaidentifique
nósidentifiquemos
vósidentifiqueis
vocêsidentifiquem
eles/elasidentifiquem

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
euidentificasse
tuidentificasses
vocêidentificasse
ele/elaidentificasse
nósidentificássemos
vósidentificásseis
vocêsidentificassem
eles/elasidentificassem

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
tuidentifica
vocêidentifique
ele/elaidentifique
nósidentifiquemos
vósidentificai
vocêsidentifiquem
eles/elasidentifiquem

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 identifiques
vocênão identifique
ele/elanão identifique
nósnão identifiquemos
vósnão identifiqueis
vocêsnão identifiquem
eles/elasnão identifiquem