frustrar
Portuguese, verb/fɾusˈtɾa(ʁ)/
frustrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to frustrate; to annoy (to cause mental stress)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “enganar a expectativa de”.
What does frustrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to frustrate; to annoy (to cause mental stress)
- 2
to frustrate; to thwart (to prevent from being successfully completed)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. enganar a expectativa de 2. iludir 3. baldar; inutilizar 4. defraudar
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 frustrar
- frustro first-person present singular
- frustrei first-person preterite singular
- frustrado participle past
- frustrares infinitive second-person singular
- frustrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- frustrardes infinitive plural second-person
- frustrarem infinitive plural third-person
- frustrando gerund
- frustrados masculine participle past
- frustrada feminine participle past
- frustradas feminine participle past
- frustras indicative present second-person
- frustra indicative present singular
- frustramos first-person indicative plural
- frustrais indicative plural present
- frustram indicative plural present
- frustrava first-person imperfect indicative
- frustravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frustrar?
- Brazil /fɾusˈtɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fɾusˈtɾa(h)]
- /fɾusˈtɾa(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 frustrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is frustrar in Portuguese?
frustrar appears 1.0 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).