Colaboram

Colaboram is a present tense form of the Portuguese verb colaborar, meaning they collaborate or they cooperate. It is used to describe joint action by two or more subjects on a common goal or task. The verb appears in many registers, from formal writing to everyday speech, in contexts such as business, academia, civil society, and teamwork.

The verb colaborar derives from Latin collaborate, from com- “together” and laborare “to work,” through the evolution of Romance languages. In modern Portuguese, colaborar and its noun colaboração are common terms for cooperative work, with colaboram serving as the third-person plural present.

Conjugation and usage: eu colaboro, tu colaboras, ele/ela colabora, nós colaboramos, vocês colaboram. Colaboram is specifically the third-person plural present indicative form, used with subjects such as eles, elas or vocês. Example: As equipes colaboram para finalizar o projeto.

Relation to related terms: while colaborar is closely related to cooperar, the nuance can differ. Colaborar emphasizes working together on a shared task, whereas cooperar can imply contributing to a process more broadly. The noun forms colaboração (the act of collaborating) and colaborativo (adjective describing collaborative approaches) derive from the same root.