causar
Portuguese, verb/kawˈza(ʁ)/
causar is spelled C-A-U-S-A-R (6 letters) and appears 35 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,623rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Causar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cause” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer acontecer, ser causa de”.
What does causar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cause
A guerra causou muitas mortes.
- 2
Brazilslangto do something mischievous or for attention
Esse cara gosta de causar.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer acontecer, ser causa de
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 causar
- causo first-person present singular
- causei first-person preterite singular
- causado participle past
- causares infinitive second-person singular
- causarmos first-person infinitive plural
- causardes infinitive plural second-person
- causarem infinitive plural third-person
- causando gerund
- causados masculine participle past
- causada feminine participle past
- causadas feminine participle past
- causas indicative present second-person
- causa indicative present singular
- causamos first-person indicative plural
- causais indicative plural present
- causam indicative plural present
- causava first-person imperfect indicative
- causavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce causar?
- Brazil /kawˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kaʊ̯ˈza(h)]
- /kawˈza(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 causar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is causar in Portuguese?
causar appears 35 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).