quebrar
Portuguese, verb/keˈbɾa(ʁ)/
quebrar is spelled Q-U-E-B-R-A-R (7 letters) and appears 32 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,772nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quebrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to break (end up or cause to end up in two or more pieces that cannot easily be reassembled)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “partir, romper”.
What does quebrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to break (end up or cause to end up in two or more pieces that cannot easily be reassembled)
- 2
to fracture a bone
- 3
to break down (stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether)
- 4
to break (do that which is forbidden by a rule, promise, etc.)
- 5
to break (ruin or be ruined financially)
- 6
to break (collapse into surf)
- 7
to beat up (give a severe beating to)
- 8
to break (set a new record)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. partir, romper 2. fragmentar, despedaçar 3. interromper 4. debilitar
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 quebrar
- quebro first-person present singular
- quebrei first-person preterite singular
- quebrado participle past
- quebrares infinitive second-person singular
- quebrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- quebrardes infinitive plural second-person
- quebrarem infinitive plural third-person
- quebrando gerund
- quebrados masculine participle past
- quebrada feminine participle past
- quebradas feminine participle past
- quebras indicative present second-person
- quebra indicative present singular
- quebramos first-person indicative plural
- quebrais indicative plural present
- quebram indicative plural present
- quebrava first-person imperfect indicative
- quebravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quebrar?
- Brazil /keˈbɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [keˈbɾa(h)]
- /keˈbɾa(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 quebrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quebrar in Portuguese?
quebrar appears 32 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).