tornar
Portuguese, verb/toʁˈna(ʁ)/
tornar is spelled T-O-R-N-A-R (6 letters) and appears 115 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 847th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tornar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to make (to cause to be)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “voltar”.
What does tornar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make (to cause to be)
A recessão tornou tudo caro.
- 2
to become; to turn into
De novo, através da investigação, torna-se claro.
- 3
to return; to come back
Precisamos tornar imediatamente!
- 4
to return (to give back)
O ladrão não quis tornar as joias aos donos.
- 5
to (do) again; to return to
Ele tornou a roubar depois que saiu da cadeia.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. voltar 2. regressar 3. voltar ao ponto de partida 4. responder
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 tornar
- torno first-person present singular
- tornei first-person preterite singular
- tornado participle past
- tornares infinitive second-person singular
- tornarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tornardes infinitive plural second-person
- tornarem infinitive plural third-person
- tornando gerund
- tornados masculine participle past
- tornada feminine participle past
- tornadas feminine participle past
- tornas indicative present second-person
- torna indicative present singular
- tornamos first-person indicative plural
- tornais indicative plural present
- tornam indicative plural present
- tornava first-person imperfect indicative
- tornavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tornar?
- Brazil /toʁˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [toɦˈna(h)]
- /toɾˈna(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 tornar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tornar in Portuguese?
tornar appears 115 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).