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Three verbs you can't avoid
Some of the most frequent verbs in Portuguese don't follow the regular patterns. You've already met a few of their forms — Eu quero mais um! at the feira, ela vai a pé and ela faz um lanche in Luana's day. Here are three of them in full:
| Pronoun | Fazer (to do, to make) | Ir (to go) | Querer (to want) |
|---|---|---|---|
| eu | faço | vou | quero |
| você / ele / ela | faz | vai | quer |
| nós | fazemos | vamos | queremos |
| vocês / eles / elas | fazem | vão | querem |
The forms in bold are the irregular ones. Fazer and querer only misbehave in a couple of places: faço takes a ç, and faz and quer lose their final -e. Ir is irregular all the way through — learn it as a little chant: vou, vai, vamos, vão.