Free Brazilian Portuguese Verb Conjugation Worksheets

How the Brazilian Portuguese worksheet generator works

Start with the verbs. The list holds 600 verbs, ranked by how often they occur in Brazilian film and TV subtitles, plus everyday verbs a beginner needs that subtitles underrate, such as passear, escovar and soletrar. Each verb has its English meaning, and you can search the list in Portuguese or English, with or without accents. Filters narrow it to regular -ar, -er or -ir verbs, verbs with a spelling change (ficar, fiquei; conhecer, conheço), irregular verbs, or verbs always used with se. A live count shows how many verbs match. A worksheet holds up to 30 verbs, in the order you click them. Then tick the tenses you want, and choose the kind of sheet on the preview.

Fill-in boxes, a quick quiz or a verb chart

The fill-in worksheet gives every verb one box for each tense, twelve boxes to a page in four rows of three. Make them smaller to fit fifteen on a page, or bigger for younger learners, with six or four to a page. Each box lists eu, tu, ele/ela/você, nós and eles/elas/vocês, so the você form is always there. Vós starts switched off; tick “Include vós” on the preview to add it. The answer key prints on separate pages. The quick quiz gives 10 to 50 shuffled lines, each asking for one form, such as “nós · falar · preterite”; a count the verbs and tenses you picked cannot fill is grayed out, and the Shuffle button makes a new version. The verb chart prints every form filled in. To look up a single verb instead, the Brazilian Portuguese verb conjugation tables give each of the 600 verbs a page of its own with every form in all 18 tenses, and print it as a chart in one click.

The 18 tenses, with Brazil's names

The indicative has the present, preterite, imperfect, simple pluperfect (falara), future (futuro do presente) and conditional (futuro do pretérito). The perfect tenses are built with ter: present perfect (tenho falado), pluperfect (tinha falado), future perfect (terei falado) and conditional perfect (teria falado). Note that tenho falado means “I have been speaking”, a repeated or ongoing action, not the English present perfect. The subjunctive (subjuntivo) has the present, imperfect, future, perfect and pluperfect. Then come the personal infinitive (falarmos, falarem) and the imperative, affirmative and negative (fale, não fale). Every tense has its Portuguese name printed next to the English one, and the -ar preterite is spelled the Brazilian way: falamos, chegamos.

Reflexive verbs: the pronoun before the verb

Click +se on any verb to make it reflexive, and the sheet places the pronoun the way Brazilian grammars and textbooks for learners teach it: before the verb, in every tense. So the sheet gives eu me levanto, eu me levantei, eu me levantarei, eu me levantaria, que eu me levante and para eu me levantar. In the perfect tenses the pronoun goes between ter and the participle, with no hyphen: tenho me levantado, tinha me levantado. Commands keep the pronoun after the verb, as written Brazilian Portuguese does on every sign and button (Sente-se, Inscreva-se): levante-se, levantem-se, levanta-te for tu, and in the negative não se levante. In everyday speech you will also hear Se levanta!, which the answer key does not use. Verbs that are always reflexive, such as queixar-se, arrepender-se and comportar-se, come with se already.

Pago or pagado? Participles with ter

Some verbs have two participles, and Brazilian usage accepts both with ter for several of them, so the answer key shows both: tenho pago/pagado, tinha ganho/ganhado, tinha gasto/gastado, tinha aceitado/aceito, tinha salvado/salvo and tinha entregado/entregue. Matar and morrer keep the regular form with ter (tinha matado, tinha morrido), because morto goes with ser and estar.

How accurate are the forms?

The forms come from Wiktionary, sorted into Brazil's forms and Portugal's using Wiktionary's own regional labels. We checked every simple form of all 600 verbs against two independent conjugators. LanguageTool's Portuguese dictionary agreed on 40,640 of 40,643 forms that both sources give; the three differences are fôsseis, where LanguageTool drops a written accent, and demos as the subjunctive of dar, which LanguageTool writes dêmos, an accent the 1990 agreement made optional and Brazilian references leave out. The verbecc conjugator agreed on 39,592 and differed on 453, and we read every difference: 387 are forms verbecc garbles, and the rest are spellings from before the 1990 agreement (vêem for veem, apóio for apoio), the short participle where ter takes the long one, old literary forms (imos for vamos), the rarer construis for constróis, and explodir, which verbecc treats as defective. Every form in the tables was then checked against Brazil's spelling dictionary, and all 29,302 passed. Where Brazilian grammars accept two forms, both are printed, such as the tu commands faz / faze and diz / dize.

Free worksheets for teachers and classrooms

Every sheet has a name and date line, prints in black and white, and can be photocopied freely. Build one worksheet per unit, or a freshly shuffled quiz per student before a test. If your class learns the Portuguese of Portugal, use the European Portuguese verb conjugation worksheets instead. The same generator also makes Spanish, French, Italian and German verb conjugation worksheets.

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Licenses and credits

Conjugation tables come from English Wiktionary through kaikki.org (CC BY-SA 4.0). The verb ranking comes from Hermit Dave's FrequencyWords list, built from OpenSubtitles 2018 (CC BY-SA 4.0).