retornar
Portuguese, verb/ʁe.toʁˈna(ʁ)/
retornar is spelled R-E-T-O-R-N-A-R (8 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,212th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retornar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to return (to come or go back)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “voltar ao ponto de partida”.
What does retornar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to return (to come or go back)
- 2
to return (give something back to its original holder or owner)
- 3
to return (to take something back to the seller for a refund)
- 4
to return (to pass back data to the calling procedure)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. voltar ao ponto de partida 2. regressar
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 retornar
- retorno first-person present singular
- retornei first-person preterite singular
- retornado participle past
- retornares infinitive second-person singular
- retornarmos first-person infinitive plural
- retornardes infinitive plural second-person
- retornarem infinitive plural third-person
- retornando gerund
- retornados masculine participle past
- retornada feminine participle past
- retornadas feminine participle past
- retornas indicative present second-person
- retorna indicative present singular
- retornamos first-person indicative plural
- retornais indicative plural present
- retornam indicative plural present
- retornava first-person imperfect indicative
- retornavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retornar?
- Brazil /ʁe.toʁˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [he.toɦˈna(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to retornar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is retornar in Portuguese?
retornar appears 20 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).