caía
Portuguese, verb
caía is spelled C-A-Í-A (4 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,159th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caía is a Portuguese verb meaning “first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of cair” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, caia is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”.
What does caía mean in English?
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of cair
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. o mesmo que mosquiteiro
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 common is caía in Portuguese?
caía appears 8.7 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).