Brazilian Portuguese Grammar

Regular verbs - Imperative mood

The imperative mood is used mostly to give orders, instructions and to make resquests.

Instructions

Step 1. Break off the verb into stem and infinitive ending.

Step 2. Add inflectional endings to each verb according to mood, verb tense, person (first, second, third person), number (singular or plural) and, most importantly, to conjugation (first, second and third conjugations).

If you can't remember what these steps are about, please refer

to Introduction to Verbs and Regular Verbs - Part 1

Verb Patterns

Imperative Mood

	First cnjugation	Second conjugation	Third conjugation
Pattern	amar	beber	partir
Stem	am-	beb-	part-
Infinitive ending	*-ar*	*-er*	*-ir*

Note: The imperative mood only has the persons tu, você, nós, vós e vocês.

Imperative Mood - Modo imperativo
Affirmative form - Imperativo afirmativo
1st	2nd	3rd	Persons
ama	bebe	parte	tu
ame	beba	parta	você
amemos	bebamos	partamos	nós
amai	bebei	parti	vós
amem	bebam	partam	vocês

Imperative Mood - Modo imperativo
Negative form - Imperativo negativo
1st	2nd	3rd	Persons
Não ames	Não bebas	Não partas	tu
Não ame	Não beba	Não parta	você
Não amemos	Não bebamos	Não partamos	nós
Não ameis	Não bebais	Não partais	vós
Não amem	Não bebam	Não partam	vocês

Portuguese-English verb tense correspondence

Imperative Mood - Modo imperativo

The imperative mood in Portuguese can be far more complicated than in English, which would only use forms such as Drink! or Let's drink to express the imperative, while you could use 5 (five) different forms in Portuguese, depending on the person you refer to.