pilar — Portuguese conjugation

to pillar

Frequency#1010Regular

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
eupiloI pillar
tupilasyou pillar
vocêpilayou pillar
ele/elapilahe/she/it pillars
nóspilamoswe pillar
vóspilaisyou (pl.) pillar
vocêspilamyou (pl.) pillar
eles/elaspilamthey pillar

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
eupileiI pillared
tupilasteyou pillared
vocêpilouyou pillared
ele/elapilouhe/she/it pillared
nóspilamoswe pillared
vóspilastesyou (pl.) pillared
vocêspilaramyou (pl.) pillared
eles/elaspilaramthey pillared

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
eupilava
tupilavas
vocêpilava
ele/elapilava
nóspilávamos
vóspiláveis
vocêspilavam
eles/elaspilavam

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
eupilariaI would pillar
tupilariasyou would pillar
vocêpilariayou would pillar
ele/elapilariahe/she/it would pillar
nóspilaríamoswe would pillar
vóspilaríeisyou (pl.) would pillar
vocêspilariamyou (pl.) would pillar
eles/elaspilariamthey would pillar

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
eupilareiI will pillar
tupilarásyou will pillar
vocêpilaráyou will pillar
ele/elapilaráhe/she/it will pillar
nóspilaremoswe will pillar
vóspilareisyou (pl.) will pillar
vocêspilarãoyou (pl.) will pillar
eles/elaspilarãothey will pillar

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 piladoI have pillared
tutens piladoyou have pillared
vocêtem piladoyou have pillared
ele/elatem piladohe/she/it has pillared
nóstemos piladowe have pillared
vóstendes piladoyou (pl.) have pillared
vocêstêm piladoyou (pl.) have pillared
eles/elastêm piladothey have pillared

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 piladoI had pillared
tutinhas piladoyou had pillared
vocêtinha piladoyou had pillared
ele/elatinha piladohe/she/it had pillared
nóstínhamos piladowe had pillared
vóstínheis piladoyou (pl.) had pillared
vocêstinham piladoyou (pl.) had pillared
eles/elastinham piladothey had pillared

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

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 piladoI will have pillared
tuterás piladoyou will have pillared
vocêterá piladoyou will have pillared
ele/elaterá piladohe/she/it will have pillared
nósteremos piladowe will have pillared
vóstereis piladoyou (pl.) will have pillared
vocêsterão piladoyou (pl.) will have pillared
eles/elasterão piladothey will have pillared

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
eupile
tupiles
vocêpile
ele/elapile
nóspilemos
vóspileis
vocêspilem
eles/elaspilem

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
eupilasse
tupilasses
vocêpilasse
ele/elapilasse
nóspilássemos
vóspilásseis
vocêspilassem
eles/elaspilassem

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
tupila
vocêpile
ele/elapile
nóspilemos
vóspilai
vocêspilem
eles/elaspilem

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 piles
vocênão pile
ele/elanão pile
nósnão pilemos
vósnão pileis
vocêsnão pilem
eles/elasnão pilem