tatear

Portuguese

Alternative forms

tactear (only Brazil, today mostly unused)

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ta.teˈa(ʁ)/ [ta.teˈa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ta.teˈa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ta.teˈa(ʁ)/ [ta.teˈa(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ta.teˈa(ɻ)/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐˈtjaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐˈtja.ɾi/

Hyphenation: ta‧te‧ar

Verb

tatear (first-person singular present tateio, first-person singular preterite tateei, past participle tateado)

to grope
to investigate, examine

Conjugation

Conjugation of tatear (e becomes ei when stressed) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	tatear
Personal	tatear	tateares	tatear	tatearmos	tateardes	tatearem
Gerund
	tateando
Past participle
Masculine	tateado			tateados
Feminine	tateada			tateadas
Indicative
Present	tateio	tateias	tateia	tateamos	tateais	tateiam
Imperfect	tateava	tateavas	tateava	tateávamos	tateáveis	tateavam
Preterite	tateei	tateaste	tateou	tateamos¹, tateámos²	tateastes	tatearam
Pluperfect	tateara	tatearas	tateara	tateáramos	tateáreis	tatearam
Future	tatearei	tatearás	tateará	tatearemos	tateareis	tatearão
Conditional	tatearia	tatearias	tatearia	tatearíamos	tatearíeis	tateariam
Subjunctive
Present	tateie	tateies	tateie	tateemos	tateeis	tateiem
Imperfect	tateasse	tateasses	tateasse	tateássemos	tateásseis	tateassem
Future	tatear	tateares	tatear	tatearmos	tateardes	tatearem
Imperative
Affirmative		tateia	tateie	tateemos	tateai	tateiem
Negative (não)		não tateies	não tateie	não tateemos	não tateeis	não tateiem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Further reading

“tatear”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“tatear”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026