resolveram

Resolveram is a verb form in Portuguese. It is the third-person plural preterite indicative of the verb resolver, meaning "they resolved" or "they decided." This form is used to describe a completed action in the past in which a group determined a solution or chose a course of action. The base verb resolver carries the senses of solving, deciding, or settling something, and is widely used in both formal and informal contexts.

Etymology-wise, resolver comes from Latin resolvere, meaning to loosen, release, or solve. Through the Romance-language development of the Iberian Peninsula, the form evolved into modern Portuguese as resolver, with resolveram representing the past tense for they.

In usage, resolveram can describe solving a problem, concluding a discussion, or deciding on a plan. It appears in mathematics when noting that a method or equation was solved, in legal or administrative contexts when a decision was made, and in everyday speech to report group decisions. Examples: Eles resolveram o problema de matemática. Eles resolveram ir ao cinema hoje à noite. The construction is straightforward in standard Portuguese, and it mirrors the regular conjugation pattern for many -er verbs in the pretérito perfeito, using the ending -aram for the third-person plural.