retirar
Portuguese, verb/ʁe.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ)/
retirar is spelled R-E-T-I-R-A-R (7 letters) and appears 30 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,999th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retirar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to take away (to remove something and put it in a different place)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr fora da presença de alguém ou do sítio (regência verbal com preposição: de)”.
What does retirar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to take away (to remove something and put it in a different place)
- 2
to take away (to remove something so that a person no longer has it)
- 3
to take away (to subtract or diminish something)
- 4
to take away (to make someone leave a place and go somewhere else)
- 5
to withdraw (to take away or take back)
- 6
to withdraw (to extract money from a bank account)
- 7
to withdraw (to draw or pull something aside)
- 8
to take back (to retract or withdraw an earlier statement)
Eu retiro o que disse
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr fora da presença de alguém ou do sítio (regência verbal com preposição: de) 2. mudar de sítio (de onde estava) (regência verbal com preposição: para) 3. ir embora (regência verbal com preposição: para) 4. ir embora (regência verbal com preposição: de)
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 retirar
- retiro first-person present singular
- retirei first-person preterite singular
- retirado participle past
- retirares infinitive second-person singular
- retirarmos first-person infinitive plural
- retirardes infinitive plural second-person
- retirarem infinitive plural third-person
- retirando gerund
- retirados masculine participle past
- retirada feminine participle past
- retiradas feminine participle past
- retiras indicative present second-person
- retira indicative present singular
- retiramos first-person indicative plural
- retirais indicative plural present
- retiram indicative plural present
- retirava first-person imperfect indicative
- retiravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retirar?
- Brazil /ʁe.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [he.t͡ʃiˈɾa(h)]
- /ʁe.t͡ʃiˈɾa(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 retirar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is retirar in Portuguese?
retirar appears 30 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).