suspirar
Portuguese, verb/sus.piˈɾa(ʁ)/
suspirar is spelled S-U-S-P-I-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 45,243rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Suspirar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sigh” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “significar por meio de suspiros”.
What does suspirar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sigh
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. significar por meio de suspiros 2. exprimir com tristeza 3. desejar veementemente 4. ter saudades de
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 suspirar
- suspiro first-person present singular
- suspirei first-person preterite singular
- suspirado participle past
- suspirares infinitive second-person singular
- suspirarmos first-person infinitive plural
- suspirardes infinitive plural second-person
- suspirarem infinitive plural third-person
- suspirando gerund
- suspirados masculine participle past
- suspirada feminine participle past
- suspiradas feminine participle past
- suspiras indicative present second-person
- suspira indicative present singular
- suspiramos first-person indicative plural
- suspirais indicative plural present
- suspiram indicative plural present
- suspirava first-person imperfect indicative
- suspiravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce suspirar?
- Brazil /sus.piˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [sus.piˈɾa(h)]
- /sus.piˈɾa(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 suspirar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is suspirar in Portuguese?
suspirar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).