sustar
Portuguese, verb/susˈta(ʁ)/
sustar is spelled S-U-S-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese, the 124,583rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sustar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to halt, suspend, interrupt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “parar ou fazer parar; suspender(-se), interromper(-se)”.
What does sustar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to halt, suspend, interrupt
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. parar ou fazer parar; suspender(-se), interromper(-se)
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 sustar
- susto first-person present singular
- sustei first-person preterite singular
- sustado participle past
- sustares infinitive second-person singular
- sustarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sustardes infinitive plural second-person
- sustarem infinitive plural third-person
- sustando gerund
- sustados masculine participle past
- sustada feminine participle past
- sustadas feminine participle past
- sustas indicative present second-person
- susta indicative present singular
- sustamos first-person indicative plural
- sustais indicative plural present
- sustam indicative plural present
- sustava first-person imperfect indicative
- sustavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sustar?
- Brazil /susˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [susˈta(h)]
- /susˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sustar in Portuguese?
sustar appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).