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descobrir.

to discover (to find something for the first time)

9 characters3 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/d͡ʒis.kuˈbɾi(ʁ)/Brazil[d͡ʒis.kuˈbɾi(h)]Brazil/des.kuˈbɾi(ʁ)/Brazil[des.kuˈbɾi(h)]Brazil
  1. to discover (to find something for the first time)

  2. to find out

    No fim do filme, ele descobre que a noiva era um fantasma.
  3. to uncover (to remove something’s cover)

Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese descobrir (“to find out”), from Late Latin discoperīre < discooperīre (“to expose”), from Latin dis- + cooperiō (“to cover wholly”). By surface analysis, des- + cobrir.

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