tomara
Portuguese, interjection
tomara is spelled T-O-M-A-R-A (6 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,015th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tomara is a Portuguese interjection meaning “I hope so” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of tomar. With an accent, tomará is a different word: “third-person singular future indicative of tomar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “expressa desejo de bons resultados”.
What does tomara mean in English?
interjection
- 1
I hope so
A: Você conseguiu tirar uma boa nota na prova de matemática? B: Tomara!
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of tomar
verb
- 1
third-person singular future indicative of tomar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
interjection: 1. expressa desejo de bons resultados 2. expressa desejo de que o expresso assim seja 3. expressa desejo de que o exposto como possibilidade em uma situação condicional, factualmente ocorra
verb: 1. terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito mais-que-perfeito do indicativo do verbo tomar
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.
English words that translate to tomara
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tomara in Portuguese?
tomara appears 7.6 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).