Treinaste

Treinaste is a Portuguese verb form, specifically the second-person singular pretérito perfeito (past simple) of the verb treinar, meaning you trained. It is used to describe a completed action of training or practice that occurred in the past and was performed by the subject indicated by the pronoun tu.

In usage, tu is common in European Portuguese and in some regional Brazilian varieties that preserve the informal second-person form. In standard Brazilian Portuguese, the more common past tense with the second person is treinou or the pronoun você paired with treinou, rather than treinaste. Nevertheless, treinaste can appear in formal registers, regional speech, or texts that maintain the traditional tu usage.

Treinar is a regular -ar verb, so its pretérito perfeito forms follow the standard pattern for this verb class. The full set of forms in the pretérito perfeito is: eu treinei, tu treinaste, ele treinou, nós treinamos, vós treinastes, eles treinaram.

Examples of usage include: Tu treinaste muito para a competição. Ela treinou ontem, mas não treinaste com ela hoje. These examples illustrate how treinaste marks a past, completed action performed by the interlocutor indicated by tu.

See also: treinar, treino, treinamento.