pifar
Portuguese, verb/piˈfa(ʁ)/
pifar is spelled P-I-F-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 93,598th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pifar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to break, to be out of whack (to stop functioning properly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “furtar dissimuladamente”.
What does pifar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to break, to be out of whack (to stop functioning properly)
Meu computador pifou.
- 2
to tire, to weary (to become tired)
- 3
to die
- 4
to secretely steal something
- 5
to fail, to be not successful
- 6
to drink alcohol excessively
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. furtar dissimuladamente 2. deixar de funcionar; entrar em pane
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 pifar
- pifo first-person present singular
- pifei first-person preterite singular
- pifado participle past
- pifares infinitive second-person singular
- pifarmos first-person infinitive plural
- pifardes infinitive plural second-person
- pifarem infinitive plural third-person
- pifando gerund
- pifados masculine participle past
- pifada feminine participle past
- pifadas feminine participle past
- pifas indicative present second-person
- pifa indicative present singular
- pifamos first-person indicative plural
- pifais indicative plural present
- pifam indicative plural present
- pifava first-person imperfect indicative
- pifavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pifar?
- Brazil /piˈfa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [piˈfa(h)]
- /piˈfa(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 pifar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pifar in Portuguese?
pifar appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).