refrigerar
Portuguese, verb/ʁe.fɾi.ʒeˈɾa(ʁ)/
refrigerar is spelled R-E-F-R-I-G-E-R-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 103,739th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Refrigerar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cool; cool down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de condicionar o ar de um ambiente ou objeto; controlar sua temperatura, umidade e fazer a…”.
What does refrigerar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cool; cool down
- 2
to refrigerate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ato ou efeito de condicionar o ar de um ambiente ou objeto; controlar sua temperatura, umidade e fazer a purificação do ar através de remoção das partículas suspensas no meio por meio de um filtro 2. diminuir a temperatura
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 refrigerar
- refrigero first-person present singular
- refrigerei first-person preterite singular
- refrigerado participle past
- refrigerares infinitive second-person singular
- refrigerarmos first-person infinitive plural
- refrigerardes infinitive plural second-person
- refrigerarem infinitive plural third-person
- refrigerando gerund
- refrigerados masculine participle past
- refrigerada feminine participle past
- refrigeradas feminine participle past
- refrigeras indicative present second-person
- refrigera indicative present singular
- refrigeramos first-person indicative plural
- refrigerais indicative plural present
- refrigeram indicative plural present
- refrigerava first-person imperfect indicative
- refrigeravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce refrigerar?
- Brazil /ʁe.fɾi.ʒeˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [he.fɾi.ʒeˈɾa(h)]
- /ʁe.fɾi.ʒeˈɾa(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 refrigerar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is refrigerar in Portuguese?
refrigerar appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).