Chegarás

Chegarás is the second-person singular future indicative form of the Portuguese verb chegar, meaning “you will arrive.” It is used to refer to a future action by the informal pronoun tu in varieties of Portuguese that preserve this form; in Brazilian Portuguese, the corresponding future for the more common you form você is chegará, since você takes the third-person singular conjugation.

Morphology and conjugation: Chegar is a regular -ar verb. In the future indicative, the endings are -ei, -ás, -á, -emos, -eis, -ão. Therefore the full set is eu chegarei, tu chegarás, ele chegará, nós chegaremos, vós chegareis, eles chegarão. The accent on the ending -ás signals the stressed syllable in the second-person singular form, and the pronunciation is typically [ʃe.ɡaˈɾas].

Usage and meaning: Chegarás expresses a future event of arriving. It is commonly used with implicit or explicit subject pronouns, though the form itself marks the person and number. It often appears with time markers such as amanhã, hoje, ou mais tarde, and it governs standard prepositional usage for arrival, as in chegar às seis, chegar à cidade, or chegar em casa.

Examples: Tu chegarás cedo para o encontro. You will arrive early for the meeting. Você chegará amanhã. You will arrive tomorrow. Chegará ao aeroporto às nove. He/She will arrive at the airport at nine. Note that in regions where tu is less common, Brazilian Portuguese typically uses você with chegará.

See also: cheg ar; futuro do indicativo; Portuguese verbs; European Portuguese; Brazilian Portuguese.