Adoraram

Adoraram is a verb form in Portuguese, serving as the third-person plural preterite (simple past) of the verb adorar. The verb adorar means to adore, to love greatly, or to worship, and adoraram indicates that a group of subjects performed the action in the past. Adorar is a regular -ar verb, so adoraram follows the standard preterite conjugation pattern for this class.

Etymology and usage: Adorar comes from Latin adōrāre, formed from ad- (toward) and ōrāre (to speak, to pray). In Portuguese, adoraram is used in narrative past contexts to describe completed acts of admiration or reverence, for example, Eles adoraram a apresentação, meaning They adored the performance.

Forms and related terms: The infinitive is adorar; the gerund is adorando; the past participle is adorado. While adoraram is the third-person plural preterite form, the language differentiates other tenses and persons with their own endings, such as adorei (I adored), adoraste (you adored), or adoraram (they or you all adored).