orçar — Portuguese conjugation

to budget

Frequency#1182Irregular

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
euorçoI budget
tuorçasyou budget
vocêorçayou budget
ele/elaorçahe/she/it budgets
nósorçamoswe budget
vósorçaisyou (pl.) budget
vocêsorçamyou (pl.) budget
eles/elasorçamthey budget

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
euorceiI budgeted
tuorçasteyou budgeted
vocêorçouyou budgeted
ele/elaorçouhe/she/it budgeted
nósorçamoswe budgeted
vósorçastesyou (pl.) budgeted
vocêsorçaramyou (pl.) budgeted
eles/elasorçaramthey budgeted

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
euorçava
tuorçavas
vocêorçava
ele/elaorçava
nósorçávamos
vósorçáveis
vocêsorçavam
eles/elasorçavam

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
euorçariaI would budget
tuorçariasyou would budget
vocêorçariayou would budget
ele/elaorçariahe/she/it would budget
nósorçaríamoswe would budget
vósorçaríeisyou (pl.) would budget
vocêsorçariamyou (pl.) would budget
eles/elasorçariamthey would budget

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
euorçareiI will budget
tuorçarásyou will budget
vocêorçaráyou will budget
ele/elaorçaráhe/she/it will budget
nósorçaremoswe will budget
vósorçareisyou (pl.) will budget
vocêsorçarãoyou (pl.) will budget
eles/elasorçarãothey will budget

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 orçadoI have budgeted
tutens orçadoyou have budgeted
vocêtem orçadoyou have budgeted
ele/elatem orçadohe/she/it has budgeted
nóstemos orçadowe have budgeted
vóstendes orçadoyou (pl.) have budgeted
vocêstêm orçadoyou (pl.) have budgeted
eles/elastêm orçadothey have budgeted

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 orçadoI had budgeted
tutinhas orçadoyou had budgeted
vocêtinha orçadoyou had budgeted
ele/elatinha orçadohe/she/it had budgeted
nóstínhamos orçadowe had budgeted
vóstínheis orçadoyou (pl.) had budgeted
vocêstinham orçadoyou (pl.) had budgeted
eles/elastinham orçadothey had budgeted

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

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 orçadoI will have budgeted
tuterás orçadoyou will have budgeted
vocêterá orçadoyou will have budgeted
ele/elaterá orçadohe/she/it will have budgeted
nósteremos orçadowe will have budgeted
vóstereis orçadoyou (pl.) will have budgeted
vocêsterão orçadoyou (pl.) will have budgeted
eles/elasterão orçadothey will have budgeted

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
euorce
tuorces
vocêorce
ele/elaorce
nósorcemos
vósorceis
vocêsorcem
eles/elasorcem

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
euorçasse
tuorçasses
vocêorçasse
ele/elaorçasse
nósorçássemos
vósorçásseis
vocêsorçassem
eles/elasorçassem

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
tuorça
vocêorce
ele/elaorce
nósorcemos
vósorçai
vocêsorcem
eles/elasorcem

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 orces
vocênão orce
ele/elanão orce
nósnão orcemos
vósnão orceis
vocêsnão orcem
eles/elasnão orcem