porfiar
Portuguese, verb/poʁ.fiˈa(ʁ)/
porfiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to dispute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “disputar”.
What does porfiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dispute
- 2
to insist, persist
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. disputar
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 porfiar
- porfio first-person present singular
- porfiei first-person preterite singular
- porfiado participle past
- porfiares infinitive second-person singular
- porfiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- porfiardes infinitive plural second-person
- porfiarem infinitive plural third-person
- porfiando gerund
- porfiados masculine participle past
- porfiada feminine participle past
- porfiadas feminine participle past
- porfias indicative present second-person
- porfia indicative present singular
- porfiamos first-person indicative plural
- porfiais indicative plural present
- porfiam indicative plural present
- porfiava first-person imperfect indicative
- porfiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce porfiar?
- Brazil /poʁ.fiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [poh.fiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /poʁˈfja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.