tossir
Portuguese, verb/tuˈsi(ʁ)/
tossir is spelled T-O-S-S-I-R (6 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 28,135th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tossir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cough” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer o esforço e o ruído provocado pela tosse”.
What does tossir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cough
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer o esforço e o ruído provocado pela tosse
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 tossir
- tusso first-person present singular
- tosse present singular third-person
- tossi first-person preterite singular
- tossido participle past
- u-o alternation
- tossires infinitive second-person singular
- tossirmos first-person infinitive plural
- tossirdes infinitive plural second-person
- tossirem infinitive plural third-person
- tossindo gerund
- tossidos masculine participle past
- tossida feminine participle past
- tossidas feminine participle past
- tosses indicative present second-person
- tossimos first-person indicative plural
- tossis indicative plural present
- tossem indicative plural present
- tossia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tossir?
- Brazil /tuˈsi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tuˈsi(h)]
- Brazil /toˈsi(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tossir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tossir in Portuguese?
tossir appears 1.3 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).