Aumentai

Aumentai is a verb form in Portuguese. It is the second-person plural imperative of the verb aumentar, meaning to increase or raise. The form is used to give a command or instruction to a group of people addressed with the pronoun vós, which is more common in historical, regional, or liturgical contexts than in everyday modern Brazilian Portuguese.

Grammatically, aumentar belongs to the -ar verb group. The imperative mood for the second person plural in European Portuguese is formed with the ending -ai for vós, producing aumentai. The corresponding forms for other persons are aumenta (tu), aumente (você), aumentemos (nós), aumentai (vós), aumentem (vocês). In many contemporary varieties of Portuguese, especially in Brazil, the vós form is rarely used, and speakers generally use você or vocês with present or other tenses instead of the vós imperative.

Usage and registers vary. Aumentai appears most often in older texts, classical literature, religious writings, or regional dialects where the vós form remains part of the standard pronoun system. In contemporary general prose and everyday speech, it is considered archaic or formal. Writers may employ aumentai to evoke a historical tone or to reflect a character’s regional background.

Example: Aumentai a produção até o final do mês. This instructs a group to increase production by the end of the month.

See also: aumentar, Portuguese verb conjugation, imperative mood, vós forms.