Acordas

Acordas is the second-person singular present indicative form of the Portuguese verb acordar, meaning “you wake up.” It is used when addressing someone informally with the subject tu in European and Brazilian Portuguese. In many Brazilian varieties, the informal you is você, which uses the form acorda in the present tense (you wake up).

The verb acordar is commonly used in everyday speech to describe waking up from sleep. It can be used transitively to wake someone else, as in A tua mãe acorda-te às seis (Your mother wakes you up at six). With reflexive pronouns, the form acordas-te means you wake up yourself, as in Tu acordas-te cedo (You wake up early). The corresponding forms change with other subjects, such as ele acorda (he wakes up) or nós acordamos (we wake up).

Acordar belongs to the -ar conjugation group and forms its tenses by standard -ar patterns. Beyond waking, acordar has related meanings in some contexts (for example, to become aware or to recall in older or regional uses), but in contemporary standard Portuguese acordar primarily denotes waking up.

Regional variation affects usage more than meaning. In Portugal, tu is common in informal speech, while in Brazil many speakers use você and the third-person singular form acorda. In formal writing and many Brazilian contexts, você is prevalent, which avoids the tu-specific form acordas.

See also: acordar, acorda, acorda-te.