regravaste

Regravaste is the second-person singular preterite indicative form of the Portuguese verb regravar, meaning you recorded something again or you rewrote content that had been recorded. The prefix re- indicates repetition, and gravar covers recording in media as well as saving data on a storage medium. Accordingly, regravar can refer to re-recording audio or video, or writing over data.

Usage varies by dialect and pronoun. In regions that maintain the informal second-person pronoun tu, regravaste is common: for example, Ontem tu regravaste a faixa de áudio. In standard Brazilian Portuguese, where você is typical, the corresponding form is regravou (you re-recorded). In formal contexts or where tu is not used, speakers typically employ regravou with você, or regravó in some Portuguese varieties.

Etymology traces regravar to re- plus gravar, with gravar historically meaning to engrave as well as to record. In contemporary Portuguese, the sense most often centers on recording media, whether audio, video, or digital data, making regravar especially common in media production and computing discussions.

See also: regravar, gravar.