facilitou

Facilitou is the third-person singular preterite form of the Portuguese verb facilitar, meaning to facilitate or to make easier. It is used to indicate that someone or something made a task or process easier in the past, and can correspond to “he facilitated,” “she facilitated,” or, in Brazilian Portuguese, “you facilitated” when using the pronoun você.

Origin and formation: The verb facilitar comes from the Latin facilis, meaning easy, plus a Portuguese derivational suffix, forming a regular -ar verb. The root facil- appears in related words such as fácil (easy), facilitação (facilitation), and facilitar (to facilitate).

Usage and examples: Facilitou is used in past narrative or reports to describe actions that eased access, procedures, or communication. Example sentences: “Ele facilitou o acesso aos serviços públicos.” (He facilitated access to public services.) “A revisão facilitou a realização do projeto.” (The review facilitated the execution of the project.)

Context and nuances: While roughly synonymous with simplificar (to simplify), facilitar emphasizes enabling a smoother process rather than merely reducing complexity. In translations, facilitação often yields “facilitation,” and facil is used for the adjective sense of easy. See also: facilitar, facilitação, fácil.