Alcançais

Alcançais is the second-person plural present indicative form of the Portuguese verb alcançar, meaning to reach or to achieve. The form is used with the archaic second-person plural pronoun vós, which persists in some dialects and in formal or literary contexts, especially in Portugal and in certain Lusophone communities.

In contemporary Brazilian Portuguese, the pronoun vocês is used instead of vós, yielding the equivalent present tense form vocês alcançam. As a result, alcançais is often considered archaic or literary in everyday speech, though it may appear in historical texts, poetry, religious liturgy, or regional writing that preserves older conjugation patterns.

Morphologically, alcançais consists of the verb root alcanç- plus the standard second-person plural present ending -ais, with the cedilla on the c to preserve the soft /s/ sound before a, as in other -çar verbs (like alcançar, alcançar). Other principal forms of the verb alcançar in the present tense include eu alcanço, tu alcanças, ele/ela alcança, nós alcançamos, eles/elas alcançam.

Examples:

- Vós alcançais os objetivos através do esforço constante. (You all reach the objectives through steady effort.)

- Em textos antigos, pode-se encontrar a forma vós alcançais com frequência.

Overall, alcançais serves as a historical and regional variant of the present tense for the second-person plural in Portuguese, illustrating the traditional vós paradigm that remains in some varieties and formal registers.