resfriar
Portuguese, verb/ʁes.fɾiˈa(ʁ)/
resfriar is spelled R-E-S-F-R-I-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 50,402nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Resfriar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cool (to make colder)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar a esfriar”.
What does resfriar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cool (to make colder)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar a esfriar 2. submeter a um abaixamento de temperatura ou a um grande frio artificial; refrigerar 3. desanimar, desalentar 4. apanhar um resfriado, gripar-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 resfriar
- resfrio first-person present singular
- resfriei first-person preterite singular
- resfriado participle past
- resfriares infinitive second-person singular
- resfriarmos first-person infinitive plural
- resfriardes infinitive plural second-person
- resfriarem infinitive plural third-person
- resfriando gerund
- resfriados masculine participle past
- resfriada feminine participle past
- resfriadas feminine participle past
- resfrias indicative present second-person
- resfria indicative present singular
- resfriamos first-person indicative plural
- resfriais indicative plural present
- resfriam indicative plural present
- resfriava first-person imperfect indicative
- resfriavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce resfriar?
- Brazil /ʁes.fɾiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [hes.fɾiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /ʁesˈfɾja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to resfriar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is resfriar in Portuguese?
resfriar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).