Adicionamos

Adicionamos is a form of the Portuguese verb adicionar, used as the first person plural present indicative: nós adicionamos, meaning we add or we are adding. The infinitive adicionar means to add, include, or attach something. The word derives from Latin, with adição or additio referring to the act of adding.

Usage and meaning

Adicionamos is used to indicate that something is being added to another thing, whether in everyday speech or formal writing. Examples include culinary contexts, such as “Nós adicionamos sal ao prato” (We add salt to the dish), as well as technical or data contexts, like “Nós adicionamos novos registros ao sistema” (We added new records to the system). The form can also appear in discussions of procedures, steps, or features that are being included.

Conjugation notes

Adicionar is a regular -ar verb, so its present indicative forms follow the standard pattern: eu adiciono, tu adicionas, ele/ela adiciona, nós adicionamos, vós adicionais (Portugal), vocês adicionam. The spelling for past tenses varies by dialect: in European Portuguese the pretérito perfeito simples is adicionámos (we added), while in Brazilian Portuguese leitura of past tense often uses other constructions, with the present form used for simultaneous or general statements.

Relation and synonyms

Related terms include adição (the noun for addition) and the verb adicionar’s synonyms such as acrescentar and somar, which convey similar ideas in particular contexts. Adicionar/adicionamos is widely used across cooking, mathematics, computing, and data management to describe the action of including or combining elements.