parar
Portuguese, verb/paˈɾa(ʁ)/
parar is spelled P-A-R-A-R (5 letters) and appears 151 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 645th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Parar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to stop (to no longer move)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “interromper um movimento ou uma ação”.
What does parar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stop (to no longer move)
O pássaro parou no meio do ar.
- 2
to stop (to no longer progress or do something)
Parem!
- 3
to stop (to cause something to no longer move)
O jogador parou a bola antes que entrasse na baliza.
- 4
to stop (to cause something to no longer progress or happen)
Alguém pretende parar o casamento?
- 5
to stop; to cease (to no longer do an action)
Parou de chover.
- 6
to stop at (to pay a short visit to)
Paramos na casa de um amigo da família.
- 7
to end up (to be in a place or situation, after something having happened)
Dei um pontapé tão forte na bola que ninguém sabe onde ela foi parar.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. interromper um movimento ou uma ação 2. encerrar-se, chegar ao final
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 parar
- paro first-person present singular
- parei first-person preterite singular
- parado participle past
- parares infinitive second-person singular
- pararmos first-person infinitive plural
- parardes infinitive plural second-person
- pararem infinitive plural third-person
- parando gerund
- parados masculine participle past
- parada feminine participle past
- paradas feminine participle past
- paras indicative present second-person
- para indicative present singular
- pára indicative present singular
- paramos first-person indicative plural
- parais indicative plural present
- param indicative plural present
- parava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce parar?
- Brazil /paˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [paˈɾa(h)]
- /paˈɾa(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 parar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is parar in Portuguese?
parar appears 151 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).