tar
Portuguese, verb/ˈta(ʁ)/
tar is spelled T-A-R (3 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 29,633rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tar is a Portuguese verb meaning “clipping of estar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “forma aferética de estar”.
What does tar mean in English?
verb
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Portugalclipping of estar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. forma aferética de estar
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 tar
- tares infinitive second-person singular
- tarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tardes infinitive plural second-person
- tarem infinitive plural third-person
- tando gerund
- tado masculine participle past
- tou first-person indicative present
- tás indicative present second-person
- tá indicative present singular
- tamos first-person indicative plural
- tais indicative plural present
- tão indicative plural present
- tava first-person imperfect indicative
- tavas imperfect indicative second-person
- távamos first-person imperfect indicative
- táveis imperfect indicative plural
- tavam imperfect indicative plural
- tive first-person indicative preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tar?
- Brazil /ˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ˈta(h)]
- /ˈta(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 tar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tar in Portuguese?
tar appears 1.2 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).