operar
Portuguese, verb/o.peˈɾa(ʁ)/
operar is spelled O-P-E-R-A-R (6 letters) and appears 16 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,076th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Operar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to operate, function” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer uma operação”.
What does operar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to operate, function
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer uma operação 2. executar 3. realizar 4. cumprir
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 operar
- opero first-person present singular
- operei first-person preterite singular
- operado participle past
- operares infinitive second-person singular
- operarmos first-person infinitive plural
- operardes infinitive plural second-person
- operarem infinitive plural third-person
- operando gerund
- operados masculine participle past
- operada feminine participle past
- operadas feminine participle past
- operas indicative present second-person
- opera indicative present singular
- operamos first-person indicative plural
- operais indicative plural present
- operam indicative plural present
- operava first-person imperfect indicative
- operavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce operar?
- Brazil /o.peˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [o.peˈɾa(h)]
- /o.peˈɾa(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 operar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is operar in Portuguese?
operar appears 16 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).