funfar
Portuguese, verb/fũˈfa(ʁ)/
funfar is spelled F-U-N-F-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese, the 203,084th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Funfar is a Portuguese verb meaning “clipping of funcionar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “funcionar, dar certo”.
What does funfar mean in English?
verb
- 1
slangclipping of funcionar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. funcionar, dar certo
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 funfar
- funfo first-person present singular
- funfei first-person preterite singular
- funfado participle past
- funfares infinitive second-person singular
- funfarmos first-person infinitive plural
- funfardes infinitive plural second-person
- funfarem infinitive plural third-person
- funfando gerund
- funfados masculine participle past
- funfada feminine participle past
- funfadas feminine participle past
- funfas indicative present second-person
- funfa indicative present singular
- funfamos first-person indicative plural
- funfais indicative plural present
- funfam indicative plural present
- funfava first-person imperfect indicative
- funfavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce funfar?
- Brazil /fũˈfa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fũˈfa(h)]
- /fũˈfa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is funfar in Portuguese?
funfar appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).