Learning the participle in Portuguese is very simple thing to do.

How to form the participle in Portuguese

You can form the participle in Portuguese in an easy way if you know the rules. All Portuguese verbs end with the letters AR, ER or IR. The ending defines the ending of the participle. Therefore the rule the conjugate the participle in Portuguese is:

List of most used participles in Portuguese

Here is a list of most regular used participles in Portuguese:

Practice forming the participle in Portuguese.

And now that you know the formula of how to convert any regular verb into a participle you can also form the following regular verbs yourself:

Criar (create)

Encontrar (find)

Inventar (invent)

Lavar (wash)

Manchar (stain)

Assistir (attend)

Cumprir (fullfill)

Decidir (decide)

Discutir (argue)

Dividir (divide)

Irregular particles in Portuguese

Unfortunately not all participles are regular in Portuguese. Meaning that some verbs don’t shape according to the rule above. Therefore we made a list of commonly used verbs with an irregular gerund: