sacar
Portuguese, verb/saˈka(ʁ)/
sacar is spelled S-A-C-A-R (5 letters) and appears 4.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,032nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sacar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to pull out; to extract; to snatch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr algo para fora do lugar onde estava originalmente”.
What does sacar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pull out; to extract; to snatch
- 2
to draw (to pull out a gun or a sword from a holster)
O policial sacou o revólver.
- 3
to withdraw (extract money from an account)
Fui para o banco sacar dinheiro.
- 4
Brazilslangto understand
- 5
colloquialto download
- 6
to serve
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr algo para fora do lugar onde estava originalmente 2. desembainhar uma arma 3. dar à bola o impulso inicial pondo-a em jogo 4. retirar dinheiro de uma conta de banco
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 sacar
- saco first-person present singular
- saquei first-person preterite singular
- sacado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- sacares infinitive second-person singular
- sacarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sacardes infinitive plural second-person
- sacarem infinitive plural third-person
- sacando gerund
- sacados masculine participle past
- sacada feminine participle past
- sacadas feminine participle past
- sacas indicative present second-person
- saca indicative present singular
- sacamos first-person indicative plural
- sacais indicative plural present
- sacam indicative plural present
- sacava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sacar?
- Brazil /saˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [saˈka(h)]
- /saˈka(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 sacar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sacar in Portuguese?
sacar appears 4.6 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).