Portuguese Verbs

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Falar [fa-lár] Present

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💡 Memory hook
FALAR comes from the Latin "fabulari" (to chat, to tell stories) — that's also where the English word "fable" comes from, a helpful memory hook.

⚠️ Worth knowing
The model verb for regular -AR verbs, the largest group in Portuguese. Watch out for the difference between "falamos" (present) and "falámos" (simple past, with an accent) — a distinction specific to European Portuguese that doesn't show up in most other tenses.

💬 Example sentence
Present: Falo português. (I speak Portuguese.)

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