pôr

The only verb ending in -or, and written with a circumflex to tell it apart from the preposition por. Irregular throughout: ponho, põe, pomos, põem in the present, pus and pôs in the past, punha in the imperfect, posto as the participle. In everyday Brazilian speech colocar often replaces it (coloca na mesa), but pôr stays in set phrases like pôr a mesa, “to set the table”. Its compounds lose the circumflex in the infinitive and otherwise follow it: propor, compor, supor — propõe, propôs.

Examples

• Onde você pôs as chaves?

  Where did you put the keys?

• Eu sempre ponho açúcar no café.

  I always put sugar in my coffee.

• Põe o casaco, tá frio.

  Put your coat on, it's cold.

Related verbs

• fazer — to do, to make
• dar — to give
• trazer — to bring

Mostly found in writing. In speech Brazilians use the forms above instead.