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podar

Portuguese, verb/poˈda(ʁ)/

podar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to prune” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cortar os ramos das árvores ou arbustos”.

What does podar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to prune

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. cortar os ramos das árvores ou arbustos

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 podar

  • podo first-person present singular
  • podei first-person preterite singular
  • podado participle past
  • podares infinitive second-person singular
  • podarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • podardes infinitive plural second-person
  • podarem infinitive plural third-person
  • podando gerund
  • podados masculine participle past
  • podada feminine participle past
  • podadas feminine participle past
  • podas indicative present second-person
  • poda indicative present singular
  • podamos first-person indicative plural
  • podais indicative plural present
  • podam indicative plural present
  • podava first-person imperfect indicative
  • podavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce podar?

  • Brazil /poˈda(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [poˈda(h)]
  • Brazil /powˈda(ʁ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to podar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is podar in Portuguese?

podar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).