vestimos

Vestimos is the first-person plural present indicative form of the Portuguese verb vestir, meaning we dress or we wear. It is used when the subject is the group “we” and the action involves clothing or dressing someone or something. In standard usage, vestimos appears with a direct object, such as vestimos as nossas roupas (we wear our clothes) or vestimos as crianças (we dress the children). The word can also function as the simple past tense in contexts where the sentence refers to a completed action in the past, with the same spelling, though the surrounding time markers usually clarify the meaning.

Etymology and cognates

Vestir derives from Latin vestire, from vestis meaning clothing. The root vest- is common across several Romance languages; related forms appear in Spanish (vestir) and French (vêtir). In Portuguese, vestimento and vestuário are related terms referring to clothing and attire, and vestista is a historical or regional noun form linked to clothing practices.

Usage and forms

As a conjugated verb, vestir and its forms are used for both dressing others and dressing oneself, depending on context. The reflexive form vestirse in related languages corresponds to vestir-se in Portuguese; the first-person plural reflexive form is nós vestimo-nos, meaning we dress ourselves. The non-reflexive form nós vestimos is used when the subject dresses someone or something else. Common examples include: Nós vestimos as crianças para a escola (we dress the children for school) and Nós vestimo-nos para o baile (we dress ourselves for the ball).

See also

Vestir, vestimenta, vestuário, vestuário humano.