rodar
Portuguese, verb/ʁoˈda(ʁ)/
rodar is spelled R-O-D-A-R (5 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,139th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rodar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to rotate, revolve, turn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer andar à roda (transitivo)”.
What does rodar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rotate, revolve, turn
- 2
to film, to shoot
- 3
Brazilinformalto run a program
- 4
datedto copy (something written/drawn on paper) using a mimeograph
rodar as provas, rodar os panfletos
- 5
Brazilslangto be caught and punished (by authorities)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer andar à roda (transitivo) 2. girar; rolar (intransitivo) 3. executar um aplicativo de computador 4. exibir sons e/ou imagens previamente gravados de forma analógica ou digital
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 rodar
- rodo first-person present singular
- rodei first-person preterite singular
- rodado participle past
- rodares infinitive second-person singular
- rodarmos first-person infinitive plural
- rodardes infinitive plural second-person
- rodarem infinitive plural third-person
- rodando gerund
- rodados masculine participle past
- rodada feminine participle past
- rodadas feminine participle past
- rodas indicative present second-person
- roda indicative present singular
- rodamos first-person indicative plural
- rodais indicative plural present
- rodam indicative plural present
- rodava first-person imperfect indicative
- rodavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rodar?
- Brazil /ʁoˈda(ʁ)/
- Brazil [hoˈda(h)]
- /ʁoˈda(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 rodar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rodar in Portuguese?
rodar appears 6.5 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).