Passarão

Passarão is the third-person plural form of the verb passar in the future indicative in Portuguese, meaning "they will pass." It is used with the subjects eles, elas, or vocês to express a future action of passing, going by, or spending time, among other senses of the verb.

Passar is a regular -ar verb, so its future indicative forms are built by adding the standard endings to the infinitive. The full paradigm in the future indicative is: eu passarei, tu passarás, ele passará, nós passaremos, vós passareis, eles passarão. The form passarão carries the nasal nasalized ending ão, signaling third-person plural in the future.

In use, passarão commonly denotes future movement or progression: Eles passarão pela cidade amanhã. It can also express future duration, as in Eles passarão o tempo estudando., meaning they will spend time studying. Additionally, passar has many senses such as to cross, to go past, to transfer, or to occur with time, so passarão may appear in varied contexts depending on the sense intended.

Passarão should not be confused with passarão’s related forms in other tenses. Passaram is the simple past (preterite) form for eles/elas/vocês, and passam is the present. In conversational Brazilian Portuguese, speakers often substitute a periphrastic future using vão passar or irão passar, especially in informal speech, whereas passarão is common in more formal or written contexts.