Pareçais

Pareçais is the second-person plural present subjunctive form of the Portuguese verb parecer, meaning to seem or to appear. It is used in subordinate clauses that express doubt, desire, emotion, possibility, or evaluation when the subject is addressed with the archaic pronoun vós or in formal written Portuguese that preserves vós usage.

Conjugation and form: Parecer in the present subjunctive yields eu pareça, tu pareças, ele pareça, nós pareçamos, vós pareçais, eles pareçam. The form pareçais is created from the stem parec- plus the present-subjunctive ending -ais, with a cedilla under c to preserve the soft sound before the a.

Usage notes: In contemporary Brazilian Portuguese, the vós form and the pareçais construction are largely confined to regional, historical, or formal contexts; in everyday speech most speakers would use pareçam with vocês, or a different construction altogether. In European Portuguese, pareçais may appear more frequently in formal or literary contexts that retain the vós paradigm.

Examples: Espero que vós pareçais tranquilos diante das notícias. Não creio que vós pareçais surpresos com a decisão. In everyday Brazilian Portuguese, listeners would more commonly encounter: Espero que vocês pareçam tranquilos diante das notícias, or similar formulations using pareçam.