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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.