nasce

Nasce is a Portuguese verb form that appears as the third-person singular present indicative of nascer, the verb meaning to be born or to arise. In everyday usage, nasce denotes the moment of birth or the emergence of something, whether a living being, a plant, or a broader phenomenon such as an idea or a movement. It can also function in descriptive, narrative, or explanatory contexts.

In addition to literal birth, nasce is used metaphorically to indicate origins or beginnings. For example, a plant nasce from a seed, a city nasce from a settlement, or a new hypothesis nasce from prior observations. In biographical or historical writing, the present tense is sometimes used in concise narrations of a person’s origin, as in “Ele nasce em 1994,” a stylistic choice that places emphasis on the moment of origin.

Etymology and related forms: nasce derives from nascer, which itself comes from Latin nasci, meaning “to be born.” The verb belongs to the regular -er verb family in its infinitive, but its present indicative form nasce is irregular in some regional conjugation patterns. Other forms of nascer include nascem for the third-person plural and nasço in the first-person singular, depending on the regional variant of Portuguese.

Usage note: While nascem and other forms of nascer are more common for plural subjects, nasce specifically targets singular subjects such as ele, ela, or você. The word is widely used across Portuguese-speaking communities and appears in literary, journalistic, and educational texts to denote origin, birth, or emergence.