ire
Portuguese, verb
ire is spelled I-R-E (3 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 67,344th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ire is a Portuguese verb meaning “first/third-person singular present subjunctive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “terceira pessoa do singular do presente do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo irar”.
What does ire mean in English?
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. terceira pessoa do singular do presente do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo irar 2. terceira pessoa do singular do imperativo afirmativo do verbo irar 3. terceira pessoa do singular do imperativo negativo do verbo irar
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.
How common is ire in Portuguese?
ire appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).