forneças

Forneças is a verb form in Portuguese. It is the second-person singular present subjunctive of the verb fornecer, meaning to supply or provide. The verb fornecer belongs to the -er conjugation class, with present subjunctive forms including eu forneça, tu forneças, ele forneça, nós forneçamos, vós forneçais, eles forneçam. The form forneças corresponds specifically to the tu subject in the present subjunctive.

The present subjunctive is used in subordinate clauses that express wishes, doubts, necessity, possibility, or hypothetical conditions. In modern Portuguese, tu forneças appears in contexts such as: “Espero que tu forneças os documentos amanhã.” In many varieties of Portuguese, especially in writing and formal speech, speakers may instead use the corresponding form for você or the more common regional variants, such as forneça, depending on the pronoun system of the variety.

Usage notes include that forneças is not a standalone imperative form; the typical imperative for tu is often forneça or, in informal speech, forms that vary by region. The tu form in the present subjunctive is more frequent in Portugal and in some Brazilian dialects that preserve the tu-vose distinction; in many Brazilian contexts, the segunda pessoa singular is replaced by você, yielding forneça in the present subjunctive.

Etymology traces fornecer to Romance roots sourced in the Latin verb system, with cognates in other Romance languages. The word carries the sense of making available or supplying something that is expected, required, or requested in a clause that requires the subjunctive mood. See also: fornecer, subjunctive mood, Portuguese conjugation.