Tomou

Tomou is a form of the Portuguese verb tomar, used as the third-person singular preterite (pretérito perfeito do indicativo). In English, it corresponds to took or drank, depending on context, and it marks a completed action in the past. For example, ele tomou o ônibus means he took the bus, and ela tomou água means she drank water.

The verb tomar has a broad range of senses in Portuguese. It can mean to physically take or seize something, to drink or ingest something, to adopt or undertake an action, or to begin a process (tomar impulso, tomar distância). It also appears in many everyday expressions, such as tomar cuidado (to be careful), tomar uma decisão (to make a decision), tomar partido (to take sides), tomar conta (to look after), and tomar remédio (to take medicine).

In usage, tomou appears in both Brazilian and European Portuguese and is used in narrative and reported speech to describe past events. The choice of tense and mood in other sentences follows standard Portuguese conjugation: tomar is a regular -ar verb, with forms like tomo (I take), tomas (you take), tomamos (we take), tomaram (they took), and so forth. The meaning of tomou is thereby determined primarily by the surrounding context and the objects or complements that follow the verb.

Tomou is not a standalone noun but a grammatical form; its significance rests in its role within the broader conjugation of tomar, a common verb in everyday Portuguese with a wide range of physical, figurative, and idiomatic uses.