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What is happening with the word trar-nos-á?
This is called mesoclisis (splitting the verb). In European Portuguese, when a verb is in the future tense and takes a pronoun like nos (us), the pronoun is placed right in the middle of the verb. Instead of trará-nos (which is incorrect), we split the future tense verb trará into its stem (trar) and its ending (á), and put nos between them: trar + nos + á.
Why is the first part trar- instead of trazer-?
The verb trazer (to bring) is irregular in the future tense. Instead of using the full infinitive trazer as the stem, it uses the shortened stem trar-. So "it will bring" is trará. When we split it to add the pronoun, it becomes trar-nos-á.
Why is there an accent mark on the final -á in trar-nos-á?
The third-person singular future ending is -á (from the verb trará). When we split the verb to insert the pronoun nos, that final ending keeps its acute accent to show that the stress of the word still falls on that last syllable.
Would Portuguese people actually say trar-nos-á in everyday conversation?