medicar — Portuguese conjugation

to medicate

Frequency#1179Irregular

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
eumedicoI medicate
tumedicasyou medicate
vocêmedicayou medicate
ele/elamedicahe/she/it medicates
nósmedicamoswe medicate
vósmedicaisyou (pl.) medicate
vocêsmedicamyou (pl.) medicate
eles/elasmedicamthey medicate

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
eumediqueiI medicated
tumedicasteyou medicated
vocêmedicouyou medicated
ele/elamedicouhe/she/it medicated
nósmedicamoswe medicated
vósmedicastesyou (pl.) medicated
vocêsmedicaramyou (pl.) medicated
eles/elasmedicaramthey medicated

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
eumedicava
tumedicavas
vocêmedicava
ele/elamedicava
nósmedicávamos
vósmedicáveis
vocêsmedicavam
eles/elasmedicavam

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
eumedicariaI would medicate
tumedicariasyou would medicate
vocêmedicariayou would medicate
ele/elamedicariahe/she/it would medicate
nósmedicaríamoswe would medicate
vósmedicaríeisyou (pl.) would medicate
vocêsmedicariamyou (pl.) would medicate
eles/elasmedicariamthey would medicate

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
eumedicareiI will medicate
tumedicarásyou will medicate
vocêmedicaráyou will medicate
ele/elamedicaráhe/she/it will medicate
nósmedicaremoswe will medicate
vósmedicareisyou (pl.) will medicate
vocêsmedicarãoyou (pl.) will medicate
eles/elasmedicarãothey will medicate

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 medicadoI have medicated
tutens medicadoyou have medicated
vocêtem medicadoyou have medicated
ele/elatem medicadohe/she/it has medicated
nóstemos medicadowe have medicated
vóstendes medicadoyou (pl.) have medicated
vocêstêm medicadoyou (pl.) have medicated
eles/elastêm medicadothey have medicated

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 medicadoI had medicated
tutinhas medicadoyou had medicated
vocêtinha medicadoyou had medicated
ele/elatinha medicadohe/she/it had medicated
nóstínhamos medicadowe had medicated
vóstínheis medicadoyou (pl.) had medicated
vocêstinham medicadoyou (pl.) had medicated
eles/elastinham medicadothey had medicated

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

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 medicadoI will have medicated
tuterás medicadoyou will have medicated
vocêterá medicadoyou will have medicated
ele/elaterá medicadohe/she/it will have medicated
nósteremos medicadowe will have medicated
vóstereis medicadoyou (pl.) will have medicated
vocêsterão medicadoyou (pl.) will have medicated
eles/elasterão medicadothey will have medicated

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
eumedique
tumediques
vocêmedique
ele/elamedique
nósmediquemos
vósmediqueis
vocêsmediquem
eles/elasmediquem

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
eumedicasse
tumedicasses
vocêmedicasse
ele/elamedicasse
nósmedicássemos
vósmedicásseis
vocêsmedicassem
eles/elasmedicassem

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
tumedica
vocêmedique
ele/elamedique
nósmediquemos
vósmedicai
vocêsmediquem
eles/elasmediquem

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 mediques
vocênão medique
ele/elanão medique
nósnão mediquemos
vósnão mediqueis
vocêsnão mediquem
eles/elasnão mediquem