-ávamos
Portuguese, suffix
-ávamos is spelled Á-V-A-M-O-S (6 letters). -ávamos is a Portuguese suffix meaning “forms the first-person plural imperfect indicative of 1ˢᵗ conjugation verbs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “indicador de primeira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do indicativo dos verbos terminados em -ar…”.
What does -ávamos mean in English?
suffix
- 1
forms the first-person plural imperfect indicative of 1ˢᵗ conjugation verbs
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. indicador de primeira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do indicativo dos verbos terminados em -ar (primeira conjugação)
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.