respirar
Portuguese, verb/ʁes.piˈɾa(ʁ)/
respirar is spelled R-E-S-P-I-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,286th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Respirar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to breathe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “executar a função da respiração”.
What does respirar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to breathe
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. executar a função da respiração 2. inspirar e expirar o ar 3. viver
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 respirar
- respiro first-person present singular
- respirei first-person preterite singular
- respirado participle past
- respirares infinitive second-person singular
- respirarmos first-person infinitive plural
- respirardes infinitive plural second-person
- respirarem infinitive plural third-person
- respirando gerund
- respirados masculine participle past
- respirada feminine participle past
- respiradas feminine participle past
- respiras indicative present second-person
- respira indicative present singular
- respiramos first-person indicative plural
- respirais indicative plural present
- respiram indicative plural present
- respirava first-person imperfect indicative
- respiravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce respirar?
- Brazil /ʁes.piˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [hes.piˈɾa(h)]
- /ʁes.piˈɾa(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 respirar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is respirar in Portuguese?
respirar appears 15 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).