Ordenais

Ordenais is a verb form in Portuguese. It is the second-person plural present indicative of the verb ordenar, which means to order, arrange, or organize. The form is most closely associated with European Portuguese, where the pronoun vós is part of the standard conjugation in some registers. In practice, ordenais appears mainly in older or more formal texts, and in modern Brazilian Portuguese the corresponding everyday form is vocês ordenam.

Usage and regional variation: In contemporary usage, many Portuguese speakers in Portugal and other regions use the vos form less frequently in everyday speech, choosing vocês and the present indicative ordenam instead. When present tense is used with vós, an example would be: Ordenais os documentos por data. The imperative form for vós is ordenai, as in Ordenai as peças agora. In Brazilian Portuguese, ordenais is uncommon outside historical or literary contexts, where it may be encountered in translations, formal writing, or discussions about grammar.

Etymology and related forms: Ordenais derives from the Latin ordināre, meaning to set in order or to arrange. It shares roots with related verbs in the Romance family, such as ordenar in Portuguese and ordenar in Spanish, though the modern spoken forms differ across dialects. Related conjugations include eu ordeno, tu ordenas, ele ordena, nós ordenamos, eles ordenam, with the imperative order (para vós) being ordenai.

See also: Portuguese verb conjugation, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Latin roots.