Portuguese conjugation
Portuguese verbs display a high degree of inflection. A typical regular verb has over fifty different forms, expressing up to six different grammatical tenses and three moods. Two forms are peculiar to Portuguese within the Romance languages, shared with Galician:
- The personal infinitive, a non-finite form which does not show tense, but is inflected for person and number.
- The future subjunctive, is sometimes archaic in some dialects (including peninsular) of related languages such as Spanish, but still active in Portuguese.
It has also several verbal periphrases.