Free European Portuguese Verb Conjugation Worksheets

How the European Portuguese worksheet generator works

Start with the verbs. The list holds 600 verbs, ranked by how often they occur in film and TV subtitles from Portugal, 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. Vós starts switched off, because few speakers use it today; 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 European 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 Portugal's names

The indicative has the present, preterite, imperfect, simple pluperfect (falara), future and conditional (condicional). 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 (conjuntivo) has the present, imperfect, future, perfect and pluperfect. Then come the personal infinitive (falarmos, falarem) and the imperative, affirmative and negative (fala, não fales). Every tense has its Portuguese name printed next to the English one, and the -ar preterite has the accent Portugal writes: falámos, chegámos.

Reflexive verbs: where the pronoun goes in Portugal

Click +se on any verb to make it reflexive, and the sheet places the pronoun the way European Portuguese does. In a statement it follows the verb, with a hyphen: levanto-me, levantas-te, levantamo-nos (the -s drops before nos). In the future and the conditional it sits inside the verb: levantar-me-ei, levantar-se-ia, and with the short futures far-se-á and dir-se-á. In the perfect tenses it goes on ter: tenho-me levantado, ter-me-ei levantado. In the subjunctive, which follows que, se or quando, it comes first: que me levante, se me levantasse, quando me levantar. Commands are levanta-te, levante-se and levantemo-nos, and in the negative não te levantes. Verbs that are always reflexive, such as queixar-se, aperceber-se and zangar-se, come with se already.

Pago or pagado? Participles with ter

Some verbs have two participles. The sheet prints the one Portuguese speakers in Portugal use with ter: tenho pago, tinha ganho, temos gasto. Where both are accepted with ter, the answer key shows both, as in 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 Portugal's forms and Brazil'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 40,642 of 40,643 forms that both sources give; the one difference, fôsseis, is LanguageTool dropping a written accent. The verbecc conjugator agreed on 39,596 and differed on 449, and we read every difference: 371 are forms verbecc garbles, and the rest are spellings from before the 1990 spelling agreement (vêem for veem), the short participle where ter takes the long one, old literary forms such as faze for faz, the rarer construis for constróis, and explodir, which verbecc treats as defective. Every form in the tables was then checked against Portugal's spelling dictionary: 29,690 of 29,703 passed, and the other 13 are rare vós forms such as sairdes that the dictionary lacks. The reflexive forms the sheet builds matched Wiktionary's own reflexive tables in all 350 cells, and LanguageTool's in 28,069 of 28,081; the 12 differences are pôr-se-á, which we write with the accent of pôr. Where Portugal uses two forms, both are printed (ouço / oiço, demos / dêmos).

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 Brazil, use the Brazilian 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).