Upper-intermediate
372 self-paced lessons: The imperfect and future subjunctive, hypothetical conditions, compound tenses, pronouns in writing, regência and crase, register, Brazil's varieties, idioms, the dissertative essay and professional Portuguese.
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The Imperfect Subjunctive, Part 1 of 2
Build the imperfect subjunctive of regular verbs from the eles form of the perfeito ("falaram" → "falasse") and use it after a main verb in the past: "queria que você falasse".
The Imperfect Subjunctive, Part 2 of 2
The irregular imperfect subjunctive, from fosse and tivesse to trouxesse and pusesse, plus the written accent on the nós form.
Drill Circuit: Fosse, Tivesse, Fizesse
Rapid practice of the irregular imperfect subjunctive (fosse, tivesse, fizesse and the rest) in every person, including the accented nós form.
Quero Que Venha, Queria Que Viesse
Match the subjunctive to the main verb: present triggers take the present subjunctive, past triggers take the imperfect, and para que, embora and antes que follow the time of the whole sentence.
Eu Queria Que...: Wishes and Soft Requests
Make gentle requests and unlikely wishes with eu queria que, seria bom se and quem dera plus the imperfect subjunctive, and tell quem dera apart from tomara que.
Contrast Clinic: Venha or Viesse?
Minimal pairs that train you to match the subjunctive to the main verb: espero que ela venha but esperava que ela viesse, peço que ligue but pedi que ligasse.
Dialogue Lab: Meus Pais Queriam Que Eu Fosse Médico
Follow two friends in São Paulo comparing what their families wanted for their careers, and use the imperfect subjunctive to tell, push back on and wish about those expectations.
Error Hunt: The Imperfect Subjunctive
Find and fix the five classic imperfect subjunctive mistakes: the indicative after a past trigger, the wrong tense, stems built on the infinitive, the missing nós accent and que with a single subject.
Transformations: Then and Now
Move whole sentences from the present into the past and watch the present subjunctive turn into the imperfect subjunctive, with every other word following along.
Spiral Review: Past Wishes and Requests
Mix the present and imperfect subjunctive with the past tenses to say what people wanted, asked for, doubted and looked for.
Unit 1 review: The Imperfect Subjunctive
Listen, speak and write with what you learned in "The Imperfect Subjunctive", then a short unit quiz.
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