durar
Portuguese, verb/duˈɾa(ʁ)/
durar is spelled D-U-R-A-R (5 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,286th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Durar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to last, endure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “não se gastar”.
What does durar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to last, endure
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. não se gastar; 2. resistir; 3. conservar-se no mesmo estado.
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 durar
- duro first-person present singular
- durei first-person preterite singular
- durado participle past
- durares infinitive second-person singular
- durarmos first-person infinitive plural
- durardes infinitive plural second-person
- durarem infinitive plural third-person
- durando gerund
- durados masculine participle past
- durada feminine participle past
- duradas feminine participle past
- duras indicative present second-person
- dura indicative present singular
- duramos first-person indicative plural
- durais indicative plural present
- duram indicative plural present
- durava first-person imperfect indicative
- duravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce durar?
- Brazil /duˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [duˈɾa(h)]
- Portugal /du.ˈɾaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to durar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is durar in Portuguese?
durar 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).