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Questions & Answers about Eu desligo o computador.
What is the connection between desligar and ligar?
How is the letter 's' in desligo pronounced?
Because the 's' comes right before the consonant 'l', it makes a "zh" sound, similar to the 's' in the English word "measure". In European Portuguese, an 's' at the end of a syllable takes on this "zh" sound whenever the next consonant is voiced (like l, m, n, or v).
Since we are studying the simple past tense, how would I change this to "I switched off"?
Your current lesson focuses on -er and -ir verbs, but desligar is a regular -ar verb. To change this sentence to the simple past tense, you would say Eu desliguei o computador. The -ei ending is the standard past tense ending for the eu form of regular -ar verbs.