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fichar

Portuguese, verb/fiˈʃa(ʁ)/

fichar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to record, file, index (make a record of information)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “registar dados sobre um tema ordenadamente em ficha”.

What does fichar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to record, file, index (make a record of information)

  2. 2

    to book

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. registar dados sobre um tema ordenadamente em ficha 2. arquivar

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 fichar

  • ficho first-person present singular
  • fichei first-person preterite singular
  • fichado participle past
  • fichares infinitive second-person singular
  • ficharmos first-person infinitive plural
  • fichardes infinitive plural second-person
  • ficharem infinitive plural third-person
  • fichando gerund
  • fichados masculine participle past
  • fichada feminine participle past
  • fichadas feminine participle past
  • fichas indicative present second-person
  • ficha indicative present singular
  • fichamos first-person indicative plural
  • fichais indicative plural present
  • ficham indicative plural present
  • fichava first-person imperfect indicative
  • fichavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce fichar?

  • Brazil /fiˈʃa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [fiˈʃa(h)]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is fichar in Portuguese?

fichar appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).