Trabalhaste

Trabalhaste is the second-person singular preterite form of the Portuguese verb trabalhar. It translates to “you worked” in English and is used with the informal pronoun tu. The form is common in European Portuguese and in some Brazilian dialects; in much of Brazil, the equivalent meaning is conveyed with você trabalhou.

Grammatical notes: Trabalhaste is a regular -ar verb conjugation in the pretérito perfeito simples. The stem is trabalha- and the ending -ste marks the second-person singular preterite. Other tenses with tu include present trabalhas, imperfect trabalhavas, and future trabalharás.

Usage: The form indicates a completed action in the past and is typically found in narrative, dialogue, or literary contexts where the pronoun tu is used. In regions or registers where tu is not common, Brazilian Portuguese speakers would ordinarily use você trabalhou to express the same meaning.

Examples:

- Tu trabalhaste no relatório ontem.

- Tu trabalhaste bastante hoje, não foi?

See also: trabalhar, pretérito perfeito, tu pronoun usage in Portuguese.