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fora de jogo

Portuguese, noun

fora de jogo is spelled F-O-R-A-D-E-J-O-G-O (10 letters). Fora de jogo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “offside” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, fora-de-jogo is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of fora de jogo; still used…”.

What does fora de jogo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    Portugalmasculineoffside

noun

as fora-de-jogo
  1. 1

    masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of fora de jogo; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. vide fora de jogo

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 fora de jogo

  • foras de jogo plural
  • fora-de-jogo alternative
  • foras-de-jogo plural

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

English words that translate to fora de jogo

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

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