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Pude, quis, disse, soube

Four more irregular verbs, all of them everyday:

Pronoun Poder Querer Dizer Saber
eu pude quis disse soube
você / ele / ela pôde quis disse soube
nós pudemos quisemos dissemos soubemos
vocês / eles / elas puderam quiseram disseram souberam

Two things to notice:

  • For quis, disse, soube, the eu and ele forms are identical — kinder than fiz / fez and tive / teve.
  • Pôde (he could) carries a circumflex. In writing, that's the only thing that tells it apart from the present pode (he can); in speech, pôde has a closed o and pode an open one.