cobrir
Portuguese, verb/koˈbɾi(ʁ)/
cobrir is spelled C-O-B-R-I-R (6 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,707th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cobrir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cover (conceal or protect)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr cobertura em”.
What does cobrir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cover (conceal or protect)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr cobertura em 2. proporcionar proteção 3. esconder, desviar da vista 4. ocupar um espaço de modo a que este não se torne visível
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 cobrir
- cubro first-person present singular
- cobre present singular third-person
- cobri first-person preterite singular
- coberto participle past
- u-o alternation
- cobrires infinitive second-person singular
- cobrirmos first-person infinitive plural
- cobrirdes infinitive plural second-person
- cobrirem infinitive plural third-person
- cobrindo gerund
- cobertos masculine participle past
- coberta feminine participle past
- cobertas feminine participle past
- cobres indicative present second-person
- cobrimos first-person indicative plural
- cobris indicative plural present
- cobrem indicative plural present
- cobria first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cobrir?
- Brazil /koˈbɾi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [koˈbɾi(h)]
- Brazil /kuˈbɾi(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 cobrir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cobrir in Portuguese?
cobrir appears 17 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).