morreste

Morreste is the second-person singular past tense form of the Portuguese verb morrer, meaning you died. It is used with the informal pronoun tu and corresponds to the pretérito perfeito in European Portuguese and in older or more literary texts.

In contemporary Brazilian Portuguese, the corresponding past-tense form is usually expressed with você morreu, and the explicit tu morreste form is less common outside regional dialects or historical writing. Morreste tends to appear in formal or literary contexts, or in regions where the tu form remains active.

Morphology and usage notes: morreste is built from the verb morrer with the second-person singular perfect ending. The third-person singular form is morreu, and the first-person forms are morri (eu) and morremos (nós). The tu form morreste is part of a larger set of perfect tenses that mark completed actions in the past in European Portuguese, while Brazilian usage relies more on the você-based forms.

Cultural and linguistic context: Morreste is often encountered in literature, historical texts, or quoted speech to reflect regional speech patterns, archaic registers, or formal narration. It can also appear in translated works to preserve the texture of older Portuguese or to convey a specific regional voice.