cuidar
Portuguese, verb/kujˈda(ʁ)/
cuidar is spelled C-U-I-D-A-R (6 letters) and appears 56 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,705th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cuidar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to take care (of); to look after (to provide care for)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “imaginar”.
What does cuidar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to take care (of); to look after (to provide care for)
A mãe cuida das crianças.
- 2
to take care; to be careful
- 3
to take care (of); to deal (with); to handle
Não te preocupes, cuidarei deste problema.
- 4
to mind (to concern oneself with, to pay attention to)
Cuida da tua vida!
- 5
archaicto think, to suppose to, to believe
- 6
to take care (be cautious, careful)
- 7
take care (used as a farewell)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. imaginar 2. meditar 3. julgar 4. tratar 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 cuidar
- cuido first-person present singular
- cuidei first-person preterite singular
- cuidado participle past
- cuidares infinitive second-person singular
- cuidarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cuidardes infinitive plural second-person
- cuidarem infinitive plural third-person
- cuidando gerund
- cuidados masculine participle past
- cuidada feminine participle past
- cuidadas feminine participle past
- cuidas indicative present second-person
- cuida indicative present singular
- cuidamos first-person indicative plural
- cuidais indicative plural present
- cuidam indicative plural present
- cuidava first-person imperfect indicative
- cuidavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cuidar?
- Brazil /kujˈda(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kuɪ̯ˈda(h)]
- /kujˈda(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 cuidar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cuidar in Portuguese?
cuidar appears 56 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).