cada
Portuguese, pronoun/ka.dɐ/
cada is spelled C-A-D-A (4 letters) and appears 617 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 147th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cada is a Portuguese pronoun meaning “each, every (qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “indica, individualizando, um elemento de um grupo ou conjunto”.
What does cada mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
each, every (qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items)
Cada prato deve ser lavado.
- 2
used as an intensifier
Fazes cada loucura!
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. indica, individualizando, um elemento de um grupo ou conjunto:
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.
How do you pronounce cada?
- Brazil /ka.dɐ/
- Portugal /kɐ.dɐ/
- Portugal [kɐ.ðɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cada
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cada in Portuguese?
cada appears 617 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).