ocorri

Ocorri is the first-person singular form of the Portuguese verb ocorrer in the pretérito perfeito do indicativo, roughly translating to “I occurred” or “I took place.” The infinitive ocorrer means to occur or to take place. As with many Portuguese verbs that describe events, the subject of ocorri would be the speaker, and the event itself would be the focus of the clause.

Etymology and cognates: Ocorrer descends from Latin occurrere, meaning to run toward, meet, or happen. The verb has cognates in other Romance languages, such as Spanish ocurrir and Italian occorrere, reflecting a shared Latin root and related semantic development across the family.

Usage and notes: In contemporary Portuguese, the form ocorri is rare in everyday speech. Most past-tense references to events use impersonal constructions with forms like ocorreu (it occurred) or simply rely on other verbs such as acontecer. The first-person preterite ocorri may appear in literary, historical, or formal narration where the author explicitly foregrounds the speaker’s involvement in past events. A common related construction is ocorr eu? no; more typical is occurrences expressed with “ocorreu-me” (it occurred to me), which uses the third-person form with a clitic pronoun and is a standard idiom meaning “it occurred to me.”

See also: ocorrer, ocorreu, ocorrido, ocorrência, ocorrência de ideias (notícias de ocorrência).