Verb groups

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.

Ficar writes qu before an e (fiquei) and parecer writes a cedilla before an o or an a (pareço, pareça), 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.

The commonest verbs are the irregular ones, and the eu form is often where they break: tenho, faço, posso. Ir breaks all the way through: vou, vai, vamos, vão. Ter has one more trap, on the page: in Brazil tem and têm usually sound alike, and only the circumflex says they.