Portuguese verb conjugation practice

Each question gives you a verb, a tense and a person: fazer · pretérito perfeito · eu. Type the form (fiz) and press Enter. You see at once whether it's right, the regular forms split where the ending starts (fal|ei), a line on what makes an irregular verb irregular, and a ▶ to hear it.

A missing accent still counts, with a note: esta for está is close enough to move on, and worth fixing. Anything you get wrong comes back a few questions later, and at the end you can practise just your mistakes.

Your progress stays in this browser, so next time you can start with the forms you found hardest.

Start with the present, the two pasts and the future with ir. Brazilians say vou fazer far more than farei, and the pretérito perfeito (fiz, fui, falei) against the imperfeito (fazia, ia, falava) is the difference you'll use every day: what happened, against what was going on or used to happen.

Then the presente contínuo, estou fazendo, which Brazil uses where Portugal says estou a fazer. The subjunctive comes next, after quando and se (quando eu for, se eu pudesse), and the futuro do presente and mais-que-perfeito simples last: you'll read them far more than you'll hear them.

Every tense of any verb, in the conjugator

• •Say each form out loud as you type it. Hearing yourself say fizemos fixes it faster than reading it.
• •Learn the irregular verbs by family: fazer, dizer and trazer change the same way in the past (fiz, disse, trouxe); ter, vir and pôr share their patterns too.
• •Keep sessions short and frequent. Twenty forms a day beats two hundred on a Sunday.
• •Practise in both directions: type the form, then switch to Recognise it, which shows you a form and asks which tense and person it is.