cobrar
Portuguese, verb/koˈbɾa(ʁ)/
cobrar is spelled C-O-B-R-A-R (6 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,176th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cobrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to charge (ask for a certain amount of money for something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pedir ou ordenar o recebimento de algo”.
What does cobrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to charge (ask for a certain amount of money for something)
- 2
to demand payment
- 3
to demand that something be done
- 4
to take
cobrar falta
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pedir ou ordenar o recebimento de algo 2. exigir responsabilidade(s)
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 cobrar
- cobro first-person present singular
- cobrei first-person preterite singular
- cobrado participle past
- cobrares infinitive second-person singular
- cobrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cobrardes infinitive plural second-person
- cobrarem infinitive plural third-person
- cobrando gerund
- cobrados masculine participle past
- cobrada feminine participle past
- cobradas feminine participle past
- cobras indicative present second-person
- cobra indicative present singular
- cobramos first-person indicative plural
- cobrais indicative plural present
- cobram indicative plural present
- cobrava first-person imperfect indicative
- cobravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cobrar?
- Brazil /koˈbɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [koˈbɾa(h)]
- /koˈbɾa(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 cobrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cobrar in Portuguese?
cobrar appears 15 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).