Sabes usar o verbo IR em Português?

0:00 Hello and welcome to Portuguese With Leo and another Portuguese lesson.

0:06 If this is your first time here, my name is Leonardo,

0:11 and on this channel I teach Portuguese from Portugal.

0:15 Today I want to talk about one of the most important verbs in Portuguese,

0:19 the verb "ir" (to go), and about 3 reasons why it's a special verb!

0:25 And before we begin, if you like this Portuguese lesson,

0:29 don't forget to click the first link in the description to download

0:34 the PDF with a summary of what we're going to learn,

0:40 along with example sentences and some exercises.

0:48 The first reason why the verb "ir" is

0:51 special is because it's the verb of the future.

0:54 In Portuguese, there's a verb tense for speaking in the future,

0:59 called the Simple Future.

1:01 For example: "Tomorrow will be a great day,

1:05 because I will meet my friends and we will catch up." The problem

1:10 with this verb tense is that nobody speaks like that in everyday life.

1:14 The natural way to say this sentence would be: "Tomorrow will be a great day,

1:20 because I'm going to meet my friends and we're

1:24 going to catch up." So, as you can see,

1:28 whenever we want to talk about the future in Portuguese,

1:31 we use the verb "ir" (to go) in the present

1:34 tense+ the verb of the action in the infinitive:

1:37 "vai ser"; "vou me encontrar"; "vamos colocar", etc.

1:41 In other words, the verb "ir" is this magic verb

1:46 that allows us to talk about the future without much difficulty.

1:50 There is only one exception: we don't do this when the verb of the action

1:56 is the verb "ir" itself, or the verb "vir".

1:59 That is, in Portuguese we don't say:

2:02 Tomorrow morning I'm going to go to the office

2:04 and at the end of the day I'm going to come home".

2:08 With these two verbs, "ir" and "vir",

2:10 it's enough to conjugate them in the present tense to talk about the future:

2:15 Tomorrow morning I'm going to the office

2:17 and at the end of the day I'm coming home.

2:23 Now I want to talk about the gerund.

2:26 You probably already know that, in Portugal,

2:29 it's very rare to conjugate verbs in the gerund.

2:33 The phrase "I'm learning Portuguese" in Brazil

2:36 would be translated as "Estou aprendendo português",

2:39 but in Portugal it would be "Estou aprendendo português".

2:46 Therefore, there's this myth that in Portugal we don't use the gerund,

2:50 but the truth is that we do.

2:53 There are some situations in which we Portuguese use the combination

2:58 of the verb "ir"+ the action verb in the gerund.

3:03 We generally do this in three situations:

3:06 The first situation is to indicate an action that is starting gradually.

3:12 For example: "While you cook lunch, I'll set the table." "It's getting late,

3:19 I think I'll leave." Here we are saying that the actions

3:24 of "setting the table" and "leaving" are about to begin, smoothly and gradually.

3:32 It's like saying "I'm starting to set the table" and "I'm starting to leave."

3:38 The second situation is to indicate

3:41 an action that is progressing, evolving gradually.

3:45 For example: "João got used to the cold

3:51 winters of Norway." "Throughout this year,

3:54 I greatly improved my level of Portuguese." In both

4:00 sentences there was a gradual adaptation or evolution.

4:04 Finally, the third situation is to indicate an action that almost happened,

4:11 but narrowly didn't.

4:12 Here we always use the verb "ir" in the imperfect

4:16 tense+ the verb of the action in the gerund.

4:20 For example: "Oh, I was almost forgetting my wallet

4:23 in the Uber!" "That child was falling on the floor,

4:28 but the mother grabbed her in time." In other words,

4:32 we are saying that I almost forgot my wallet

4:35 and that the child almost fell on the floor,

4:39 but that, by a hair's breadth, neither of these things happened.

4:43 These uses of the gerund in Portuguese from Portugal that I just explained

4:48 are subtle and are something that is usually learned at a B2 level.

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5:20 Finally, the last peculiarity of the verb "ir" is that it is

5:25 conjugated exactly the same way as the verb "ser" in 3 verb tenses.

5:31 The first of these tenses is the preterite perfect,

5:34 which is the tense we use to talk about actions in the past:

5:50 All these conjugations correspond to both the verb "to go" and the verb "to be".

5:57 Therefore, if you want to say the sentence "Last year I went traveling,

6:02 and I was very happy," in Portuguese you would say:

6:05 "No ano passado fui viajar e fui muito

6:08 feliz." The first "fui" corresponds to the verb "ir",

6:11 and the second "fui" to the verb "ser".

6:15 The other two verb tenses are

6:17 the imperfect subjunctive and the future subjunctive.

6:21 I won't explain these verb tenses here

6:24 because they are slightly more complex grammatical topics;

6:27 I'll only show you the conjugations.

6:29 If you want to delve deeper into these subjunctive topics,

6:32 which are important for speaking Portuguese well,

6:35 then I recommend that you watch these two videos I made about the subjunctive,

6:41 and I'll mention again my B2 level course,

6:45 which will be ready in 2026, where we work precisely on these topics.

6:52 For this video, we will only look at the conjugations

6:56 of the verbs "ser" and "ir" in the imperfect and future subjunctive,

7:00 which are the same for both verbs.

7:05 Imperfect subjunctive: Future subjunctive: So, in the following sentences,

7:33 we have first the verb "to go" and then

7:37 the verb "to be," both with the same conjugation: "If I were to go to Lisbon,

7:42 I would like you to be my guide." "When you go to the bank, and are served,

7:49 let me know." I hope you enjoyed this lesson

7:52 on the verb "to go," such a small but interesting verb.

7:57 Once again, I recommend that you download the free PDF of this lesson,

8:02 where you will find a summary of the explanation,

8:06 several everyday example sentences, and exercises for you to practice.

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