querer
Portuguese, noun/keˈɾe(ʁ)/
querer is spelled Q-U-E-R-E-R (6 letters) and appears 98 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,007th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Querer is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “desire, will” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does querer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to want; to wish; to desire
Os meus filhos querem uma bola para o Natal.
- 2
to want
Eu quero que venhas comigo.
- 3
to want to (to feel the need to do something)
Os agricultores queriam colher o trigo.
- 4
to mind; why don’t ... (used to make polite requests)
Você não quer sair?
- 5
to be almost; to be about to; to be likely to
Está querendo chover.
- 6
to wish (something) (to want a particular condition to be applied to someone or something)
Não queremos nada menos do que sofrimento para os culpados.
- 7
to wish (hope for something unlikely)
Eu queria que você estivesse aqui.
- 8
to want (to want someone or something to reach a given state)
São tantos que me querem morto.
noun
- 1
masculinedesire, will
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sentir vontade de 2. ambicionar 3. tencionar
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 querer
- quero first-person present singular
- quis first-person preterite singular
- querido participle past
- quereres infinitive second-person singular
- querermos first-person infinitive plural
- quererdes infinitive plural second-person
- quererem infinitive plural third-person
- querendo gerund
- queridos masculine participle past
- querida feminine participle past
- queridas feminine participle past
- queres indicative present second-person
- quer indicative present singular
- queremos first-person indicative plural
- quereis indicative plural present
- querem indicative plural present
- queria first-person imperfect indicative
- querias imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce querer?
- Brazil /keˈɾe(ʁ)/
- Brazil [keˈɾe(h)]
- /keˈɾe(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 querer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is querer in Portuguese?
querer appears 98 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).