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israelhopilos010
4 jul 2022

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O que significa Ela esperava que ele mudasse seu comportamento ?

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Living_Hooman
4 jul 2022

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It means "she hoped he would change his (own) behavior".

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israelhopilos010
4 jul 2022

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@Living_Hooman Thanks

but what I wanted to know if she still wants him to change his attitude? because the sentence is already in the past tense
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laianafcarv
5 jul 2022

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@israelhopilos010 essa frase dá a entender que ela não espera mais que ele mude o comportamento. Talvez ele tenha falecido ou não vivem mais juntos.

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israelhopilos010
5 jul 2022

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@laianafcarv Thanks a lot, other thing


In these sentences, Am I referring to the past or the present?


Eu gostaria que você fizesse isso por mim

Você gostaria que eu te ajudasse?

Eles adorariam que viéssemos

Nos adorariamos que você estivesse aqui
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Living_Hooman
5 jul 2022

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@israelhopilos010 This verb ending (-ria) is used not only to talk about things that could have changed/happened, but now can't be changed anymore, but also to things politely (you generally will see "gostaria", which means "would like" in this kind of usage). Moreover, Adoraria translates to "I/he/she/they would love", just as gostaria, so you might compare this verb termination (-ria) with the modal verb "would". So: 1. Present 2. Present 3. Present (you may change it to the past: "eu adoraria que eles tivessem vindo") 4. Present This usage of a past tense (futuro do pretérito - literally "future of the past, in english") to describe the present is called embreagem verbal, and happens a lot with this specific verb tense. Here is one example where it refers to the past: Eu gostaria de ter jantado com vocês ontem. ("I would like to have had dinner with you(plural) yesterday). As you see, when you want to change it to the past, you need to use this structure (infinitve+past participle or "que"+imperfect past+past participle). There's also a really really old structure in which you use the pretérito mais que perfeito (literally: more than perfect past (its verb ending is -ra), which has exactly the same meaning as the structure infinitive+past participle, but don't worry, this is so uncommon that you'll only ever find it in literature). Now, as you see, this is a completely different phrase structure than the one given in your first example, and has a completely different meaning/usage. I'm sorry for the long text, but it's really hard to systematize these very different usages, so it's better for you to understant these verb tenses through context or through studying them more.

@israelhopilos010 This verb ending (-ria) is used not only to talk about things that could have changed/happened, but now can't be changed anymore, but also to things politely (you generally will see "gostaria", which means "would like" in this kind of usage). Moreover, Adoraria translates to "I/he/she/they would love", just as gostaria, so you might compare this verb termination (-ria) with the modal verb "would".
So:
1. Present
2. Present
3. Present (you may change it to the past: "eu adoraria que eles tivessem vindo")
4. Present
This usage of a past tense (futuro do pretérito - literally "future of the past, in english") to describe the present is called embreagem verbal, and happens a lot with this specific verb tense. Here is one example where it refers to the past:
Eu gostaria de ter jantado com vocês ontem. ("I would like to have had dinner with you(plural) yesterday). As you see, when you want to change it to the past, you need to use this structure (infinitve+past participle or "que"+imperfect past+past participle). There's also a really really old structure in which you use the pretérito mais que perfeito (literally: more than perfect past (its verb ending is -ra), which has exactly the same meaning as the structure infinitive+past participle, but don't worry, this is so uncommon that you'll only ever find it in literature). Now, as you see, this is a completely different phrase structure than the one given in your first example, and has a completely different meaning/usage.
I'm sorry for the long text, but it's really hard to systematize these very different usages, so it's better for you to understant these verb tenses through context or through studying them more.

6cbd868e
5 jul 2022

  • Português (Brasil)

“She expected him to change his attitude.”

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darkprincee
6 jul 2022

  • Português (Brasil)

"She was expecting he would change his behavior". "Esperar" means "to hope" or "to expect" and "comportamento" means "behavior".

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