gripar
Portuguese, verb/ɡɾiˈpa(ʁ)/
gripar is spelled G-R-I-P-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). Gripar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to catch the flu” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “provocar ou contrair gripe”.
What does gripar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to catch the flu
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. provocar ou contrair gripe
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 gripar
- gripo first-person present singular
- gripei first-person preterite singular
- gripado participle past
- gripares infinitive second-person singular
- griparmos first-person infinitive plural
- gripardes infinitive plural second-person
- griparem infinitive plural third-person
- gripando gerund
- gripados masculine participle past
- gripada feminine participle past
- gripadas feminine participle past
- gripas indicative present second-person
- gripa indicative present singular
- gripamos first-person indicative plural
- gripais indicative plural present
- gripam indicative plural present
- gripava first-person imperfect indicative
- gripavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gripar?
- Brazil /ɡɾiˈpa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ɡɾiˈpa(h)]
- /ɡɾiˈpa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gripar in Portuguese?
gripar 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).