adiar
Portuguese, verb/a.d͡ʒiˈa(ʁ)/
adiar is spelled A-D-I-A-R (5 letters) and appears 4.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,678th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to postpone, delay, adjourn, defer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “deixar para outra data o que se tem para fazer”.
What does adiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to postpone, delay, adjourn, defer
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. deixar para outra data o que se tem para fazer
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of adiar
- adio first-person present singular
- adiei first-person preterite singular
- adiado participle past
- adiares infinitive second-person singular
- adiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- adiardes infinitive plural second-person
- adiarem infinitive plural third-person
- adiando gerund
- adiados masculine participle past
- adiada feminine participle past
- adiadas feminine participle past
- adias indicative present second-person
- adia indicative present singular
- adiamos first-person indicative plural
- adiais indicative plural present
- adiam indicative plural present
- adiava first-person imperfect indicative
- adiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adiar?
- Brazil /a.d͡ʒiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.d͡ʒiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /aˈd͡ʒja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adiar in Portuguese?
adiar appears 4.3 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).