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PORTUGUESE · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

falar.

to speak; to talk (to say words out loud)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/faˈla(ʁ)/Brazil[faˈla(h)]Brazil/faˈla(ɾ)/São-Paulo/faˈla(ʁ)/Rio-de-Janeiro
  1. to speak; to talk (to say words out loud)

    intransitive
    Para de falar.
    Fala!
  2. to communicate by any means

    broadly
    Já não nos falamos.
    Falamo-nos por correio.
  3. to say something

    Brazil · transitive
    Para de falar bobagens.
  4. to talk

    intransitive
    Estou falando com você
    Tás a falar pra mim?
  5. to tell (to convey by speech)

    Brazil · transitive
    Vou falar para você.
  6. to talk

    intransitive
  7. to speak ill

    intransitive
  8. to speak (to be able to communicate in a language)

    transitive
    Eu falo português.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese falar, from Latin fābulārī (“chat, converse”). Doublet of fabular, which was borrowed from Latin. Compare Galician falar, Spanish hablar.

noun/faˈlaʁ/Brazil[faˈlah]Brazil/faˈlaɾ/São-Paulo/faˈlaʁ/Rio-de-Janeiro
  1. a cant, dialect or regional language

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Nominalization of Etymology 1.

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