Portuguese · Chapter 1 · Lesson 17 · Grammar primer
Verb groups
Prescribed by the Edexcel specification.
The short version
Brazilian Portuguese needs fewer endings
Brazil has largely standardised on você for everyday address, and você takes the same verb form as ele and ela. So one ending covers three pronouns, and the present tense a learner actually needs has four forms rather than the six most textbooks print. That is a real saving; take it.
Você fala muito bem.
Ficar is regular, it just changes its spelling
Ficar writes qu before an e and parecer writes a cedilla before an a, and both look like irregularities. They are not. The sound follows the regular pattern perfectly and only the spelling shifts to protect it. File them as regular verbs with a spelling rule attached.
Eu fico em casa.
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