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COMEÇAR a / PARAR de
By James Hall

What’s so special about the verbs PARAR & COMEÇAR? For starters you’ve probably noticed that you always have to treat these verbs a little differently. For example, you can’t say “I stopped eating sugar” like this: eu parei comer açucar (NÃO!) — you need to include a de like this: Eu parei de comer açucar….

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(4) Advanced Portuguese

parar ➜ to stop

present indicativeparar to stopeuparovocê, ele, elaparanósparamosvocês, eles, elasparam Complete conjugation.

using the verb PARAR with de

You always need to place an “de” right after the verb PARAR and a verb that follows. It’s a rule. When paired with de, parar + de can be used to say, “Stop xxx”.