I am by no means a master of Portuguese, may be completely wrong. I really got myself confused and thinking about podia vs. poderia, and why I never heard quereria but only queria, and why my namorada got upset when I said that I "queria" something of her and wondered if I did't want it from her any more?

Has anybody heard or used "poderia" and "quereria" and, conversely, anybody used "devia"?

BTW, great resource to get all the forms of all verbs is the web site conjugar-me. I wasn't even half sure about what I wrote above without that site.

The only uncertainty here is the use of the conditional or the imperfect tense in subjunctive phrases.
Correctly it should be the conditional but in practice both are used.
In English we have similar in that the correct subjunctive form would be 'If I were...' you find that 'If I was...' in common use also.

Se eu tivesse fome comeria
Se eu tivesse fome comia

But even then... from an old song..

Se a gente grande soubesse
o que consegue a voz mansa

Originally posted by Squiddie I am by no means a master of Portuguese, may be completely wrong. I really got myself confused and thinking about podia vs. poderia, and why I never heard quereria but only queria, and why my namorada got upset when I said that I "queria" something of her and wondered if I did't want it from her any more?Has anybody heard or used "poderia" and "quereria" and, conversely, anybody used "devia"?BTW, great resource to get all the forms of all verbs is the web site conjugar-me. I wasn't even half sure about what I wrote above without that site.

I was traumatized by the word, QUERERIA once in Manaus.    

I remember in round 2 of Port. tutor fiascos, my language teacher laughed me out the door when I attempted to say, "Quereria." I insisted that based upon the conjugation patterns he just taught then that would be the logical conjugation. He got up went to a nearby sala, asked another BR to come in and ask if they had ever heard of such a word and stood laughing in the doorway at me. Even the textbook listed it as a legitimate word and Aurelios has it in their conjugation lists - but not for Rosenbaum (I think that was his name).

I think he had self-esteem issues and compensated by humiliating gringoes - ME.     

Edited by Catarinense - 03 September 2012 at 14:52

Originally posted by 3casas devia ter feito, i use all the time.... poderia and quereria i can't say i've seen but it's not the type of thing i would come across.

I don't think I've ever heard quereria - does it even exist? Everyone just says queria. Eu queria que ela fosse....

It used to be that politicians in Brazil would be exact in their use of grammar and words such as quereria would always be used clearly. Poderia is still commonly used as far as I know and is taught in schools podia is just a swallowed way of saying it.