medrar
Portuguese, verb/meˈdɾa(ʁ)/
medrar is spelled M-E-D-R-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese, the 185,713th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Medrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to grow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “crescer”.
What does medrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to grow
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. crescer 2. melhorar os animais ou plantas 3. aumentar
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 medrar
- medro first-person present singular
- medrei first-person preterite singular
- medrado participle past
- medrares infinitive second-person singular
- medrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- medrardes infinitive plural second-person
- medrarem infinitive plural third-person
- medrando gerund
- medrados masculine participle past
- medrada feminine participle past
- medradas feminine participle past
- medras indicative present second-person
- medra indicative present singular
- medramos first-person indicative plural
- medrais indicative plural present
- medram indicative plural present
- medrava first-person imperfect indicative
- medravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce medrar?
- Brazil /meˈdɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [meˈdɾa(h)]
- /meˈdɾa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is medrar in Portuguese?
medrar appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).