cerrar
Portuguese, verb/seˈʁa(ʁ)/
cerrar is spelled C-E-R-R-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 72,332nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cerrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to close, shut” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vedar”.
What does cerrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to close, shut
- 2
to seal
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. vedar 2. fechar 3. ocultar 4. terminar
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 cerrar
- cerro first-person present singular
- cerrei first-person preterite singular
- cerrado participle past
- cerrares infinitive second-person singular
- cerrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cerrardes infinitive plural second-person
- cerrarem infinitive plural third-person
- cerrando gerund
- cerrados masculine participle past
- cerrada feminine participle past
- cerradas feminine participle past
- cerras indicative present second-person
- cerra indicative present singular
- cerramos first-person indicative plural
- cerrais indicative plural present
- cerram indicative plural present
- cerrava first-person imperfect indicative
- cerravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cerrar?
- Brazil /seˈʁa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [seˈha(h)]
- /seˈʁa(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 cerrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cerrar in Portuguese?
cerrar appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).