ouves

Ouves is the second-person singular present indicative form of the Portuguese verb ouvir, meaning to hear. It translates to "you hear" in English and is used with the informal subject pronoun tu in European Portuguese and in some regional varieties of Brazilian Portuguese. In standard Brazilian Portuguese, the corresponding form with the more common subject você is ouve.

Como uma forma verbal, ouves exemplifies the irregular pattern of ouvir in the present tense. The full present tense paradigm for ouvir is eu ouço, tu ouves, ele/ela ouve, nós ouvimos, eles/elas ouvem. This makes ouves the typical tu-form in contexts where tu is the subject and the verb is conjugated in the present.

Usage notes: ouves appears most often in formal or regional European Portuguese contexts where tu is used, whereas in many Brazilian dialects, você ouve is more common in everyday speech. It can appear in questions, statements, or negative sentences with appropriate negation, as in Tu ouves as notícias? or Tu não ouves rápido o suficiente.

Etymology and related forms: ouves comes from ouvir, which in turn derives from Latin audire. Related words include ouvir (to hear), ouvido (ear/hearing), and audição (hearing).

In summary, ouves is a standard grammatical form indicating the action of hearing directed at a second-person singular subject in Portuguese, most often encountered in European Portuguese and in some Brazilian dialects. It is not a standalone concept or place, but a common verb form used in everyday language.