fixar
Portuguese, verb/fikˈsa(ʁ)/
fixar is spelled F-I-X-A-R (5 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,234th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fixar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fix, fasten, secure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar fixo, firme, seguro”.
What does fixar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fix, fasten, secure
- 2
to set (a date, time, deadline)
- 3
to memorise something (to retain in one's memory)
- 4
to stare
- 5
to centre one's attention on
- 6
to fix
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar fixo, firme, seguro 2. estabelecer, promover a fixação 3. memorizar, aprender de cor 4. olhar insistentemente
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 fixar
- fixo first-person present singular
- fixei first-person preterite singular
- fixado participle past
- fixares infinitive second-person singular
- fixarmos first-person infinitive plural
- fixardes infinitive plural second-person
- fixarem infinitive plural third-person
- fixando gerund
- fixados masculine participle past
- fixada feminine participle past
- fixadas feminine participle past
- fixas indicative present second-person
- fixa indicative present singular
- fixamos first-person indicative plural
- fixais indicative plural present
- fixam indicative plural present
- fixava first-person imperfect indicative
- fixavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fixar?
- Brazil /fikˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fikˈsa(h)]
- /fikˈsa(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 fixar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fixar in Portuguese?
fixar appears 4.5 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).