Quizziz_lesson 24: hoje foi corrido!

Which past tense do I use for actions that

happened and were completed in the past?

• Passado Perfeito

• Passado Imperfeito

Answer explanation

Passado Perfeito is used to talk about actions that happened and were completed in the past. Think of it like hitting the “done” button on something you did. It’s finished, and there’s no ongoing action.

Example: Imagine you had a super busy morning:

• Eu fui para trabalho às 8 horas.

(I went to work at 8 o’clock.)

• Eu almocei ao meio dia.

(I had lunch at noon.)

Here, each action is done and dusted. All of these things happened, and now they’re over.

Which past tense do I use for actions that were ongoing in the past, habits and repeated actions?

• Passado Perfeito

• Passado Imperfeito

Answer explanation

Passado Imperfeito is for actions that were ongoing in the past, or for habits and repeated actions. Think of it as something you were doing, but we don’t know exactly when it ended—or if it even ended at all!

Examples:

• Eu estava tomando café quando o telefone tocou.

(I was drinking coffee when the phone rang.)

• Eu ia para o trabalho todo dia de bicicleta.

(I used to go to work by bike every day.)

• Quando eu era criança, eu brincava no parque. (When I was a kid, I used to play in the park.)

In these sentences, the actions were ongoing or habitual.

How do we conjugate regular verbs in the 'passado perfeito'?

(The conjugation for verbs ending in -ER and -IR when talking about yourself is the same. Therefore, they are identified to avoid confusion.)

Groups:

(a) verbs ending in (-ar)

,

(b) verbs ending in (-Er)

,

(c) verbs ending in (-Ir)

• você | ele: -iu

• vocês | eles: -aram

• nós: -imos

• vocês | eles: -iram

• eu: -i (er)

• eu: -ei

• eu: -i (ir)

• nós: -emos

• nós: -amos

• você | ele: -ou

• vocês | eles: -eram

• você | ele: -eu

Match the actions in the passado perfeito:

• eu acordei

• 
• eu tomei banho

• 
• eu levantei

• 
• eu me vesti

• 
• eu escovei os dentes

• 

Match the actions in the passado perfeito:

• eu fui para o trabalho

• 
• eu peguei o

  õnibus

• 
• eu perdi o ônibus

• 
• eu lavei o rosto

• 
• eu tomei café da manhã

• 

Match the actions in the passado perfeito:

• eu fui para a escola

• 
• eu trabalhei

• 
• eu cheguei no trabalho

• 
• eu almocei

• 
• eu estudei

• 

Match the actions in the passado perfeito:

• eu jantei

• 
• eu dormi

• 
• eu fiz a janta

• 
• eu voltei para a casa

• 

Reorder the following sentence: How do you go to Brazil?

• você

• Como

• o Brasil?

• vai

• para

Match the ways of saying how you travel or how you get somewhere in Portuguese:

• de carro

• 
• de ônibus

• 
• de metrô

• 
• a pé

• 
• de bicicleta

• 

Reorder the setence: how was your day today?

• Como

• foi

• o seu

• hoje?

• dia