what does "estiver" mean here?
Tenha cuidado quando estiver brincando com o bebe.
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ESTIVER na sua frase é CONJUNTIVO/SUBJUNTIVO do futuro do verbo estar.
( Be careful when you will be playing with the baby).
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Estiver is third person singular of Futuro do Conjuntivo (in European portuguese is used it with the personal pronoun ele/ela he/she, in Brazilian potuguese is used with você=you) You use it when you want to describe something that may happen in the future. You could translate that to English as something like this "be careful when you are playing with the baby " but this is not 100% accurate because this could lead to the reasoning that you are not careful when you play to the baby and it would translate exactly to portuguese as "tem cuidado quando brincas com o bebé" (this is European portuguese - tu brincas ) "tem cuidado quando (você) brinca com o bebé" ( this is Brazilian portuguese). So you could translate it more accurately as be careful if you play with the baby. Hope it helps.
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Estiver é um verbo que está no futuro do subjuntivo (estar) da gramática portuguesa.
In english means "will be"
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