forçar
Portuguese, verb/foʁˈsa(ʁ)/
forçar is spelled F-O-R-Ç-A-R (6 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,384th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Forçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to force” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “obrigar alguém a fazer algo que esta não queria fazer”.
What does forçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to force
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. obrigar alguém a fazer algo que esta não queria fazer 2. propelir contra uma força contrária 3. fazer acontecer por uma necessidade 4. impor algo ou alguém a uma pessoa
verb: 1. trabalhar com a ferramenta chamada forca ou forcado, mover ou revolver palha, feno ou outro material com o forcado 2. enforcar
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 forçar
- forço first-person present singular
- forcei first-person preterite singular
- forçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- forçares infinitive second-person singular
- forçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- forçardes infinitive plural second-person
- forçarem infinitive plural third-person
- forçando gerund
- forçados masculine participle past
- forçada feminine participle past
- forçadas feminine participle past
- forças indicative present second-person
- força indicative present singular
- forçamos first-person indicative plural
- forçais indicative plural present
- forçam indicative plural present
- forçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce forçar?
- Brazil /foʁˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fohˈsa(h)]
- /foɾˈsa(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 forçar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is forçar in Portuguese?
forçar appears 12 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).