Portuguese futures

In Portuguese there are two ways to place the object pronoun.

1) Subject  + object + future verb
2) Subject  + verb + object pronoun + tense

I will see it  = Eu o verei or Vê-lo-ei.  If the
object is "o" "os" "a" or "as" (it.them) then the
"r" of the infinitive is dropped and a  "l" is
added to the direct object. This form is almost
never used in Speech (either in Brazil or
Portugal). The more common forms are:

Vou vê-lo
Eu o verei
Vejo-o
O vejo (Brazil only)

The two latter examples are of the present tense being used as a future tense.



>On Sep 24, 2007, at 7:42 AM, Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>Andreas Johansson writes:
>>>Quoting Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>:
>>>>Then there are also mesoclitics, which occur between morphemes within
>>>>a word in Portuguese. I don't see why some so-called endoclitics
>>>>(i.e. the ones between morphemes) shouldn't be called mesoclitics.
>>>
>>>Examples?
>>
>>I could imagine Eric means the object pronouns in future tense which
>>are between the verbal root and the future ending.  Historically, this
>>developed from INF + OBJ_PRONOUN + habere.  In other Romance langs,
>>the object pronoun moved away when the 'habere' forms became verb
>>endings.
>>
>>Since I don't speak Portuguese, I've used Google to provide some
>>examples:
>>
>>Eu falarei        - I will speak
>>Eu falar-lhe-ei   - I will speak to him.
>>
>>Or was it something else, you meant, Eric?
>>
>>**Henrik
>
>It's a little late to respond, but yes -- that is what I meant.

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