pausar
Portuguese, verb/pawˈza(ʁ)/
pausar is spelled P-A-U-S-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 40,483rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pausar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to pause (to interrupt an activity)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does pausar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pause (to interrupt an activity)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of pausar
- pauso first-person present singular
- pausei first-person preterite singular
- pausado participle past
- pausares infinitive second-person singular
- pausarmos first-person infinitive plural
- pausardes infinitive plural second-person
- pausarem infinitive plural third-person
- pausando gerund
- pausados masculine participle past
- pausada feminine participle past
- pausadas feminine participle past
- pausas indicative present second-person
- pausa indicative present singular
- pausamos first-person indicative plural
- pausais indicative plural present
- pausam indicative plural present
- pausava first-person imperfect indicative
- pausavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pausar?
- Brazil /pawˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [paʊ̯ˈza(h)]
- /pawˈza(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 pausar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pausar in Portuguese?
pausar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).