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serrar

Portuguese, verb/seˈʁa(ʁ)/

serrar is spelled S-E-R-R-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 66,070th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Serrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to saw (cut with a saw)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cortar com serra”.

What does serrar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to saw (cut with a saw)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. cortar com serra

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 serrar

  • serro first-person present singular
  • serrei first-person preterite singular
  • serrado participle past
  • serrares infinitive second-person singular
  • serrarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • serrardes infinitive plural second-person
  • serrarem infinitive plural third-person
  • serrando gerund
  • serrados masculine participle past
  • serrada feminine participle past
  • serradas feminine participle past
  • serras indicative present second-person
  • serra indicative present singular
  • serramos first-person indicative plural
  • serrais indicative plural present
  • serram indicative plural present
  • serrava first-person imperfect indicative
  • serravas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce serrar?

  • Brazil /seˈʁa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [seˈha(h)]
  • /seˈʁa(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 serrar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is serrar in Portuguese?

serrar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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