custar
Portuguese, verb/kusˈta(ʁ)/
custar is spelled C-U-S-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears 8.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,020th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Custar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cost” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ser adquirido pelo preço de”.
What does custar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cost
Quanto custa?
- 2
to be difficult
Custa muito accreditar nisso.
- 3
to be tiresome, exhausting
A tarefa custou muito.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ser adquirido pelo preço de 2. valer, ter o valor de 3. causar a despesa de 4. causar
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 custar
- custo first-person present singular
- custei first-person preterite singular
- custado participle past
- custares infinitive second-person singular
- custarmos first-person infinitive plural
- custardes infinitive plural second-person
- custarem infinitive plural third-person
- custando gerund
- custados masculine participle past
- custada feminine participle past
- custadas feminine participle past
- custas indicative present second-person
- custa indicative present singular
- custamos first-person indicative plural
- custais indicative plural present
- custam indicative plural present
- custava first-person imperfect indicative
- custavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce custar?
- Brazil /kusˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kusˈta(h)]
- /kusˈta(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 custar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is custar in Portuguese?
custar appears 8.9 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).