cascar
Portuguese, verb/kasˈka(ʁ)/
cascar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hit, to blow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “romper ou remover a casca”.
What does cascar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hit, to blow
- 2
to say bitter words to someone
- 3
to peel, to shell
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. romper ou remover a casca 2. figuradamente bater em alguém
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 cascar
- casco first-person present singular
- casquei first-person preterite singular
- cascado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- cascares infinitive second-person singular
- cascarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cascardes infinitive plural second-person
- cascarem infinitive plural third-person
- cascando gerund
- cascados masculine participle past
- cascada feminine participle past
- cascadas feminine participle past
- cascas indicative present second-person
- casca indicative present singular
- cascamos first-person indicative plural
- cascais indicative plural present
- cascam indicative plural present
- cascava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cascar?
- Brazil /kasˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kasˈka(h)]
- /kasˈka(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cascar in Portuguese?
cascar appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).