Passés portugais – Récapitulatif d’utilisation ancré à l’anglais
In this article, we will look at the Portuguese equivalents of the English Past Simple, Past Continuous, and Past Perfect tenses.
Voici quelques lectures analogues sur le Présent et Avenir temps :
Temps présents en portugais – Récapitulatif d’utilisation ancré à l’anglais
Temps du futur portugais – Récapitulatif d’utilisation ancré à l’anglais
j'utiliserai le verbe dormir (dormir) pour tous les exemples ci-dessous :
Dormir | Preterite Pretérito Perfeito | Dormir | Imperfect Pretérito Imperfeito | |
Eu | dormi | dormia |
Tu | dormiste | dormias |
Ele, ela | dormiu | dormia |
Nós | dormimos | dormíamos |
Vocês Eles, elas | dormiram | dormiam |
Present participle Gerúndio | dormindo | |
Past participle Particípio passado | dormido |
Passé simple
There are two Past tenses* that often map onto the English Past simple, namely the Preterite (Pretérito Perfeito) et le Imperfect (Pretérito Imperfeito).
Cela déroute souvent les apprenants dont la langue maternelle n'a pas cette nuance tendue (anglais inclus). Essayons alors de comprendre cela.
* These are technically called “verb aspects” as there’s only one Past tense.
Preterite – Completed Actions
We use the Preterite to talk about past actions that are completed and well delimited in time:
A Raquel dormiu até às 10 da manhã. Raquel slept until 10 in the morning. |
Comme vous pouvez le voir ci-dessus, le Prétérit (dormiu) se traduit au passé simple (slept) En anglais.
Further, we can also use a compound verb structure with the auxiliary verb estar in the Preterite followed by the preposition a and the action verb in the Infinitive without any substantial change in meaning:
A Raquel esteve a dormir até às 10 da manhã. Raquel was sleeping until 10 in the morning. |
Finally, note that we also use the Preterite in situations where, in English, we use the Present Perfect:
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