arrastar
Portuguese, verb/a.ʁasˈta(ʁ)/
arrastar is spelled A-R-R-A-S-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 4.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,457th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrastar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to drag, haul, lug, tug” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “puxar atrás de si, geralmente com dificuldade, fazendo que deslize pelo chão”.
What does arrastar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drag, haul, lug, tug
- 2
to crawl, to creep (to move by dragging the body along the ground)
O homem ferido arrastava-se pelo chão.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. puxar atrás de si, geralmente com dificuldade, fazendo que deslize pelo chão
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 arrastar
- arrasto first-person present singular
- arrastei first-person preterite singular
- arrastado participle past
- arrastares infinitive second-person singular
- arrastarmos first-person infinitive plural
- arrastardes infinitive plural second-person
- arrastarem infinitive plural third-person
- arrastando gerund
- arrastados masculine participle past
- arrastada feminine participle past
- arrastadas feminine participle past
- arrastas indicative present second-person
- arrasta indicative present singular
- arrastamos first-person indicative plural
- arrastais indicative plural present
- arrastam indicative plural present
- arrastava first-person imperfect indicative
- arrastavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arrastar?
- Brazil /a.ʁasˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.hasˈta(h)]
- /a.ʁasˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arrastar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arrastar in Portuguese?
arrastar appears 4.4 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).