tolher
Portuguese, verb/toˈʎe(ʁ)/
tolher is spelled T-O-L-H-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese, the 142,541st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tolher is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hamper, to hinder, to impede” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “impedir, dificultar”.
What does tolher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hamper, to hinder, to impede
- 2
to prohibit, to disallow
- 3
to paralyze (to inhibit movement of the body)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. impedir, dificultar
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 tolher
- tolho first-person present singular
- tolhi first-person preterite singular
- tolhido participle past
- tolheres infinitive second-person singular
- tolhermos first-person infinitive plural
- tolherdes infinitive plural second-person
- tolherem infinitive plural third-person
- tolhendo gerund
- tolhidos masculine participle past
- tolhida feminine participle past
- tolhidas feminine participle past
- tolhes indicative present second-person
- tolhe indicative present singular
- tolhemos first-person indicative plural
- tolheis indicative plural present
- tolhem indicative plural present
- tolhia first-person imperfect indicative
- tolhias imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tolher?
- Brazil /toˈʎe(ʁ)/
- Brazil [toˈʎe(h)]
- /toˈʎe(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tolher in Portuguese?
tolher appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).