salvar
Portuguese, verb/sawˈva(ʁ)/
salvar is spelled S-A-L-V-A-R (6 letters) and appears 51 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,846th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Salvar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to save (to help someone to survive; to make sure something isn’t destroyed)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “retirar de situação perigosa”.
What does salvar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to save (to help someone to survive; to make sure something isn’t destroyed)
- 2
Brazilto save (to write a file to disk)
- 3
to save (to redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation)
- 4
to greet with a salvo
- 5
to greet
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. retirar de situação perigosa 2. liberar do poder do pecado e do mal 3. gravar (arquivo)
verb: 1. primeira pessoa do singular do futuro do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo salvar 2. terceira pessoa do singular do futuro do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo salvar 3. infinitivo pessoal da primeira pessoa do singular do verbo salvar 4. infinitivo pessoal da terceira pessoa do singular do verbo salvar
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 salvar
- salvo first-person present singular
- salvei first-person preterite singular
- salvado participle past
- salvares infinitive second-person singular
- salvarmos first-person infinitive plural
- salvardes infinitive plural second-person
- salvarem infinitive plural third-person
- salvando gerund
- salvos masculine participle past
- salva feminine participle past
- salvas feminine participle past
- salvados long-form masculine participle
- salvada feminine long-form participle
- salvadas feminine long-form participle
- salvamos first-person indicative plural
- salvais indicative plural present
- salvam indicative plural present
- salvava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce salvar?
- Brazil /sawˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [saʊ̯ˈva(h)]
- /sawˈva(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 salvar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is salvar in Portuguese?
salvar appears 51 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).