quedar
Portuguese, verb/keˈda(ʁ)/
quedar is spelled Q-U-E-D-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese, the 136,722nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quedar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to stay quiet or still” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ficar, permanecer; deter-se”.
What does quedar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stay quiet or still
- 2
to linger (to stay in a place or situation for too long)
- 3
to stay; to remain (not to change from a condition)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ficar, permanecer; deter-se
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 quedar
- quedo first-person present singular
- quedei first-person preterite singular
- quedado participle past
- quedares infinitive second-person singular
- quedarmos first-person infinitive plural
- quedardes infinitive plural second-person
- quedarem infinitive plural third-person
- quedando gerund
- quedados masculine participle past
- quedada feminine participle past
- quedadas feminine participle past
- quedas indicative present second-person
- queda indicative present singular
- quedamos first-person indicative plural
- quedais indicative plural present
- quedam indicative plural present
- quedava first-person imperfect indicative
- quedavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quedar?
- Brazil /keˈda(ʁ)/
- Brazil [keˈda(h)]
- /keˈda(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is quedar in Portuguese?
quedar appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).