parou

Parou is the third-person singular past tense form of the Portuguese verb parar, meaning to stop or halt. It is used to describe a completed action in the past where someone or something stopped moving, a process was interrupted, or an activity came to an end. The form is common in both Brazilian and European Portuguese and typically appears with ele, ela, or você in the past narrative.

Usage notes

Parou can refer to stopping physical movement (for example, a car stopping at a red light) as well as stopping a broader action or habit (for example, stopping smoking). It is frequently used with de to express cessation of an activity, as in parou de fumar (he/she stopped smoking) or parou de falar (he/she stopped speaking). Parou can also appear in phrases describing a halt in events or processes, such as o motor parou (the engine stopped) or o filme parou no meio (the movie stopped in the middle).

Grammatical context

Parou comes from parar, a regular -ar verb. In past narrative, parou corresponds to a completed action attributed to ele, ela, or você. The infinitive form is parar, and the corresponding imperfect or future forms vary according to standard Portuguese conjugation rules.

See also

Parar (verb); Portuguese grammar; Portuguese verb conjugation.

Note

Parou is primarily a linguistic form rather than a standalone concept, and it may be encountered mainly in written or spoken Portuguese as part of a normal past-tense narration.