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Vocês imprimiram os documentos para a reunião?

Vocês imprimiram os documentos para a reunião?
Did you print the documents for the meeting?
From Lesson 65:Past tense of regular -er and -ir verbs·Portuguese (Portugal)

Breakdown of Vocês imprimiram os documentos para a reunião?

vocês
you (pl)
a reunião
the meeting
para
to / for
imprimir
to print
o documento
the document

Questions & Answers about Vocês imprimiram os documentos para a reunião?

How do we get imprimiram from the verb imprimir?
Imprimir is a regular '-ir' verb. To make it simple past tense for vocês (you, plural) or eles/elas (they), you drop the '-ir' ending and add -iram. So, imprimir becomes imprimiram (you printed).
How do you pronounce the -am at the end of imprimiram?
At the end of a verb in Portuguese, -am makes a nasal sound, very similar to the Portuguese -ão, but shorter and unstressed. It sounds a bit like an English 'ow' spoken through the nose. It does not sound like the English word 'am'.
If I just said Imprimiram os documentos para a reunião? without Vocês, would it mean the same thing?
It could, because Portuguese often drops the subject! However, the verb ending -iram is shared by vocês, eles (they, masculine), and elas (they, feminine). Keeping Vocês in the sentence prevents confusion and makes it perfectly clear that you are asking 'Did you print...' and not 'Did they print...'.
Why are para and a separate words here?
Para means 'for', and a is the feminine word for 'the', matching the feminine noun reunião (meeting). Unlike prepositions like de or em which combine with a to make da or na, para usually stays separate as para a. You might hear native speakers squash them together into 'p'ra' when speaking quickly, but they are written separately.

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