Tornarmos

Tornarmos is not a recognized standard form in contemporary Portuguese. In most reference works and dictionaries, it does not appear as a correct finite conjugation of the verb tornar, and it is not listed as an independent verb form. When encountered, tornarmos is generally treated as a nonstandard, mistaken, or oblique occurrence rather than a grammatical form with a defined meaning.

Etymology and relation to tornar The base verb is tornar, meaning to become or to turn. The sequence torn- plus the clitic pronoun nos (us) could theoretically arise in informal writing or in rapid speech as a clitic-verb cluster, but standard Portuguese orthography requires explicit separation or a hyphen in clitic constructs, such as tornar-nos or tornaremos for different tenses. Tornarmos has no established place in the regular paradigm of tornar.

Usage and interpretation In practice, tornarmos should be avoided in formal writing. If it appears, it is typically treated as a typographical error, a transcription mistake, or a nonstandard/colloquial variant not supported by authorities. The correct finite forms are, for example, tornaremos (we will become) in the future indicative and tornamos (we become) in the present indicative, with tornar-nos used when the infinitive is combined with the reflexive pronoun nos.

Related terms See also: tornar, nos, clitic pronouns, Portuguese verb conjugation, infinitive.