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tretar

Portuguese, verb

tretar is spelled T-R-E-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 55 million words in written Portuguese, the 207,250th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tretar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to (angrily) discuss” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “brigar; arranjar confusão”.

What does tretar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    slangto (angrily) discuss

  2. 2

    slangto fight

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. brigar; arranjar confusão

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 tretar

  • treto first-person present singular
  • tretei first-person preterite singular
  • tretado participle past
  • tretares infinitive second-person singular
  • tretarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • tretardes infinitive plural second-person
  • tretarem infinitive plural third-person
  • tretando gerund
  • tretados masculine participle past
  • tretada feminine participle past
  • tretadas feminine participle past
  • tretas indicative present second-person
  • treta indicative present singular
  • tretamos first-person indicative plural
  • tretais indicative plural present
  • tretam indicative plural present
  • tretava first-person imperfect indicative
  • tretavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is tretar in Portuguese?

tretar appears about once in every 55 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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