estudais

Estudais is a Romance-language verb form that marks the action of studying by the second-person plural present indicative. It appears in several languages with similar roots, and its exact form reflects the pronoun system and regional usage of each language. The verb from which it derives is typically meaning “to study” and shares a common Latin origin with related verbs in the family.

In Spanish, estudiaís is the 2nd-person plural present indicative form of estudiar when the vos form is used, commonly written as estudiáis. It is standard in Spain and in regions that continue to use the vos form. In most of Latin America, the vos form is overshadowed by ustedes, and the corresponding verb form for “you all study” is estudian, the third-person plural, as in “¿Ustedes estudian español?”

In Portuguese, estudais is the 2nd-person plural present indicative of estudar and is primarily associated with the archaic or regional use of the pronoun vós. In contemporary Brazilian Portuguese, the standard 2nd-person plural form is vocês estudam, while the vós form (estudais) survives mainly in European Portuguese and in formal or traditional contexts.

Etymology and cognates: studere in Latin is the common source for the modern forms, connected to words such as estudar and estudiar in the Romance languages. The development of person-number marking through suffixes is a widespread feature across the family, aiding in identifying the subject and tense without explicit pronouns.

See also: Portuguese verb conjugation, Spanish verb conjugation, estudo, estudiar, estudar.