rastejar — Portuguese conjugation

to crawl

Frequency#820Regular

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
eurastejoI crawl
turastejasyou crawl
vocêrastejayou crawl
ele/elarastejahe/she/it crawls
nósrastejamoswe crawl
vósrastejaisyou (pl.) crawl
vocêsrastejamyou (pl.) crawl
eles/elasrastejamthey crawl

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
eurastejeiI crawled
turastejasteyou crawled
vocêrastejouyou crawled
ele/elarastejouhe/she/it crawled
nósrastejamoswe crawled
vósrastejastesyou (pl.) crawled
vocêsrastejaramyou (pl.) crawled
eles/elasrastejaramthey crawled

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
eurastejava
turastejavas
vocêrastejava
ele/elarastejava
nósrastejávamos
vósrastejáveis
vocêsrastejavam
eles/elasrastejavam

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
eurastejariaI would crawl
turastejariasyou would crawl
vocêrastejariayou would crawl
ele/elarastejariahe/she/it would crawl
nósrastejaríamoswe would crawl
vósrastejaríeisyou (pl.) would crawl
vocêsrastejariamyou (pl.) would crawl
eles/elasrastejariamthey would crawl

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
eurastejareiI will crawl
turastejarásyou will crawl
vocêrastejaráyou will crawl
ele/elarastejaráhe/she/it will crawl
nósrastejaremoswe will crawl
vósrastejareisyou (pl.) will crawl
vocêsrastejarãoyou (pl.) will crawl
eles/elasrastejarãothey will crawl

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 rastejadoI have crawled
tutens rastejadoyou have crawled
vocêtem rastejadoyou have crawled
ele/elatem rastejadohe/she/it has crawled
nóstemos rastejadowe have crawled
vóstendes rastejadoyou (pl.) have crawled
vocêstêm rastejadoyou (pl.) have crawled
eles/elastêm rastejadothey have crawled

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 rastejadoI had crawled
tutinhas rastejadoyou had crawled
vocêtinha rastejadoyou had crawled
ele/elatinha rastejadohe/she/it had crawled
nóstínhamos rastejadowe had crawled
vóstínheis rastejadoyou (pl.) had crawled
vocêstinham rastejadoyou (pl.) had crawled
eles/elastinham rastejadothey had crawled

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

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 rastejadoI will have crawled
tuterás rastejadoyou will have crawled
vocêterá rastejadoyou will have crawled
ele/elaterá rastejadohe/she/it will have crawled
nósteremos rastejadowe will have crawled
vóstereis rastejadoyou (pl.) will have crawled
vocêsterão rastejadoyou (pl.) will have crawled
eles/elasterão rastejadothey will have crawled

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
eurasteje
turastejes
vocêrasteje
ele/elarasteje
nósrastejemos
vósrastejeis
vocêsrastejem
eles/elasrastejem

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
eurastejasse
turastejasses
vocêrastejasse
ele/elarastejasse
nósrastejássemos
vósrastejásseis
vocêsrastejassem
eles/elasrastejassem

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
turasteja
vocêrasteje
ele/elarasteje
nósrastejemos
vósrastejai
vocêsrastejem
eles/elasrastejem

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 rastejes
vocênão rasteje
ele/elanão rasteje
nósnão rastejemos
vósnão rastejeis
vocêsnão rastejem
eles/elasnão rastejem