Comprei

Comprei is a Portuguese verb form meaning “I bought.” It is the first-person singular of the pretérito perfeito do indicativo for the verb comprar, used to indicate a completed purchase in the past. The form is the same across many dialects of Portuguese, including Brazilian and European varieties, though pronunciation can vary slightly.

As a regular -ar verb, comprar follows a predictable conjugation pattern in the pretérito perfeito. The first-person singular is eu comprei; other forms include tu compraste or você comprou, ele/ela comprou, nós compramos, vós comprastes (or vocês compraram), depending on regional usage. Comprei is commonly used in everyday speech, writing, and narrative to describe past purchases or completed actions related to acquiring goods or services.

Usage notes include its distinction from present forms such as compro (I buy) and future forms such as comprarei (I will buy). In narrative writing, comprei can introduce a past event that affects the present context, though more often it simply marks a past action. The word appears in both formal and informal registers.

Etymology traces comprei to comprar, which in turn derives from Latin comparare, meaning to obtain or procure. The development reflects the broader Romance-language family’s evolution of purchase and exchange terminology.

See also: comprar, compra, compração. The term is primarily a grammatical form rather than a standalone lexical item, and its meaning is inherently tied to the action of buying and the past tense in Portuguese.