escreveu

Escreveu is a form of the Portuguese verb escrever, meaning to write. It functions as the third-person singular preterite (simple past) indicative of the verb, used for actions completed in the past. It can accompany ele, ela, or você in sentences such as ele escreveu uma carta or ela escreveu um artigo. In Brazilian Portuguese, and in most contexts, você escreveu is used similarly to he/she wrote, depending on the subject.

Etymology and related forms: escrever derives from Latin scribere, with cognates in other Romance languages such as Spanish escribir (escribió) and French écrire. The preterite form escre**veu** comes from the verb’s stem escrev- plus the suffix for the third-person singular preterite.

Morphology and conjugation notes: escrever has a regular preterite pattern for a subset of its forms, with escrev- as the stem in many past forms. The full preterite conjugation includes escrevi (eu), escreveste (tu), escreveu (ele/ela/você), escrevemos (nós), escrevestes (vós), escreveram (eles/elas/vocês). This form is distinct from the imperfect and other tenses of escrever.

Usage tips: escreveu is common in narrative prose, journalism, and everyday speech to indicate a completed act of writing in the past. It often appears with direct objects such as cartas, artigos, ou romances.

See also: escrever; preterite (Portuguese); Portuguese conjugation; list of common Portuguese verbs.

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