recebam

Recebam is a conjugated form of the Portuguese verb receber, meaning to receive. It is the third-person plural present subjunctive form (eles/elas recebam) and, in many varieties of Portuguese, also functions as the affirmative imperative for the pronoun vocês, used to address a group.

Grammatical form and usage: The present subjunctive paradigm of receber is: eu receba, tu recebas, ele/ela receba, nós recebamos, vós recebais, eles/elas recebam. Thus, recebam appears as the form for eles/elas in the present subjunctive and as the command form for vocês in imperative contexts. This form is common in formal writing, legal texts, and everyday speech when giving instructions to a group or when expressing wishes, doubts, or possibilities with que or para que.

Examples: Que eles recebam os documentos até amanhã. (That they receive the documents by tomorrow.) Recebam o prêmio, por favor. (Receive the prize, please.) Espero que recebam o pacote sem problemas. (I hope they receive the package without issues.)

Etymology: Recebam derives from the verb receber, which comes from Latin recipere, through the evolution of the Romance languages into Portuguese. It shares its roots with related verbs in the Iberian languages that express the sense of taking in, gaining, or accepting.

Notes: In everyday speech, muitos falam informalmente, but the form recebam remains correct in formal or written Portuguese for the you-all and they forms, depending on the sentence structure.