fabricar
Portuguese, verb/fa.bɾiˈka(ʁ)/
fabricar is spelled F-A-B-R-I-C-A-R (8 letters) and appears 4.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,397th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fabricar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to manufacture, to fabricate (to make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “produzir algo”.
What does fabricar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to manufacture, to fabricate (to make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery)
- 2
to fabricate, to construct, to build
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. produzir algo 2. construir 3. fazer na fábrica 4. cultivar a terra
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 fabricar
- fabrico first-person present singular
- fabriquei first-person preterite singular
- fabricado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- fabricares infinitive second-person singular
- fabricarmos first-person infinitive plural
- fabricardes infinitive plural second-person
- fabricarem infinitive plural third-person
- fabricando gerund
- fabricados masculine participle past
- fabricada feminine participle past
- fabricadas feminine participle past
- fabricas indicative present second-person
- fabrica indicative present singular
- fabricamos first-person indicative plural
- fabricais indicative plural present
- fabricam indicative plural present
- fabricava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fabricar?
- Brazil /fa.bɾiˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fa.bɾiˈka(h)]
- /fa.bɾiˈka(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 fabricar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fabricar in Portuguese?
fabricar appears 4.9 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).