Rendeu

Rendeu is the third-person singular preterite indicative form of the Portuguese verb render, meaning to yield, to produce, or to surrender in reflexive use. The verb has several related senses in both European and Brazilian Portuguese, including yielding profits or results, yielding crops, or yielding to pressure. In narrative past tense, rendeu is commonly used to report outcomes or returns.

Common uses include financial or practical results: “No último trimestre, a empresa rendeu lucros significativos” (the company yielded significant profits). It can describe agricultural yield: “A colheita rendeu mais do que o esperado.” In its reflexive form, render-se, the sense changes to surrender or capitulate: “O adversário rendeu-se.”

Rendimento and rendimentos are related nouns referring to yield, return, or income, and are often used in economic or financial contexts. The past participle of render is rendido, which forms compound tenses with auxiliary verbs: “ele tem rendido bons resultados” or, in reflexive sense, “ele se rendeu.”

Pronunciation varies slightly across dialects but generally is pronounced with a stressed syllable on the second to last: rENdu. The form rendeu is a regular preterite ending for this conjugation pattern, while other forms of render follow the standard -er verb paradigm in Portuguese.

Etymology traces render to Latin rendere, via Old French rendre, with parallel development in other Romance languages like Spanish rendir. The word is widely used in Lusophone contexts to describe outcomes, profits, or capitulation, and should not be confused with renda (income) or rendimento (yield in a more formal financial sense).