Portuguese tenses
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The Portuguese language has three moods and three nominal forms, which are then divided into tenses. Tenses may be simple (i.e. they don't need auxiliary verbs to be conjugated) or compound (i.e. they are conjugated with the help of the auxiliary verbs ter / haver).
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Indicative Mood
- Present
- Imperfect
- Perfect *
- Pluperfect *
- Present Future [aka Simple Future] *
- Past Future [aka Conditional] *
Subjunctive Mood
- Present
- Imperfect
- Perfect **
- Pluperfect *
- Future *
Imperative Mood
- Affirmative
- Negative
Nominal Forms
- Impersonal Infinitive
- Personal Infinitive
- Gerund
- Participle ***
- Past Personal Infinitive **
- Past Impersonal Infinitive **
- Past Gerund **
Portuguese also uses a large number of periphrastic forms with the help of other auxiliary verbs, often expressing aspectual changes or different types of nuances.
Note:
* Both simple and compound forms
** Compound forms only
*** Strictly speaking, the only participle active in Portuguese is the Past Participle; Present Participle forms are possible, but most of them are just frozen forms treated as simple adjectives / nouns. There are also a few frozen literary Future Participles derived from Latin forms that, again, are just treated as adjectives / nouns.
