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The 40 most common Portuguese verbs

Verbs change shape more than any other words, so a list of infinitives only gets you halfway. Here each of the most frequent Portuguese verbs comes with the form you hear in “he does” and a past form, for example fazer → faz, fez; ser → é, foi; dizer → diz, disse.

#WordHe/she, presentPastTranslationLevel
1fazerfazfezdoA1
2seréfoibeA1
3dizerdizdissesayA1
4vervêviuseeA1
5falarfalafalouspeakA1
6irvaifoigoA1
7ficarficaficoustayA1
8sabersabesoubeknowA1
9dardádeugiveA1
10tentartentatentoutryA1
11pensarpensapensouthinkA1
12voltarvoltavoltoureturnA1
13ajudarajudaajudouinitiateA1
14encontrarencontraencontroufindA1
15passarpassapassoupassA1
16deixardeixadeixouleaveA1
17entrarentraentrouenterA1
18chegarchegachegouarriveA1
19virvemveiocomeA1
20ouvirouveouviuhearA1
21matarmatamatoukillA1
22aconteceraconteceaconteceuhappenA1
23começarcomeçacomeçoubeginA1
24usarusausouuseA1
25comercomecomeueatA1
26viverviveviveuliveA1
27pararparaparoustopA1
28andarandaandouwalkA1
29buscarbuscabuscoufetchA1
30perderperdeperdeuloseA1
31esperaresperaesperouwaitA1
32acabaracabaacaboufinishA1
33contarcontacontoutallyA1
34olharolhaolhoulookA1
35pedirpedepediurequestA1
36conseguirconsegueconseguiusucceedA2
37tomartomatomoutakeA2
38jantarjantajantouhave dinnerA2
39tirartiratirouremoveA2
40descobrirdescobredescobriudiscoverA2

Forms come from the UniMorph tables and Universal Dependencies treebanks, which linguists compiled. When a table has no form, the cell stays empty instead of guessing. Depending on the language, the past form shown is the simple past or the imperfect.

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Sources: translations and pronunciation from Wiktionary (wikdict, CC BY-SA 3.0) and ipa-dict (MIT), frequency from OpenSubtitles (FrequencyWords).