cambiar
Portuguese, verb/kɐ̃.biˈa(ʁ)/
cambiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to exchange (to trade or barter)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “permutar (moeda ou letras de um país pelas de outro)”.
What does cambiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to exchange (to trade or barter)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. permutar (moeda ou letras de um país pelas de outro) 2. fazer a sorte de câmbio a (touros) 3. mudar de cores 4. fazer mudança de opiniões, sistemas, etc
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 cambiar
- cambio first-person present singular
- cambiei first-person preterite singular
- cambiado participle past
- cambiares infinitive second-person singular
- cambiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cambiardes infinitive plural second-person
- cambiarem infinitive plural third-person
- cambiando gerund
- cambiados masculine participle past
- cambiada feminine participle past
- cambiadas feminine participle past
- cambias indicative present second-person
- cambia indicative present singular
- cambiamos first-person indicative plural
- cambiais indicative plural present
- cambiam indicative plural present
- cambiava first-person imperfect indicative
- cambiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cambiar?
- Brazil /kɐ̃.biˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kɐ̃.biˈa(h)]
- Brazil /kɐ̃ˈbja(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 cambiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cambiar in Portuguese?
cambiar appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).