perfurar

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin perforāre.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /peʁ.fuˈɾa(ʁ)/ [peh.fuˈɾa(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /peʁ.fuˈɾa(ʁ)/ [peh.fuˈɾa(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /peɾ.fuˈɾa(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /peʁ.fuˈɾa(ʁ)/ [peχ.fuˈɾa(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /peɻ.fuˈɾa(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɨɾ.fuˈɾaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɨɾ.fuˈɾaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɨɾ.fuˈɾa.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: per‧fu‧rar

Verb

perfurar (first-person singular present perfuro, first-person singular preterite perfurei, past participle perfurado)

1. (transitive) to perforate
2. (transitive) to pierce

Conjugation

    Conjugation of perfurar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	perfurar
Personal	perfurar	perfurares	perfurar	perfurarmos	perfurardes	perfurarem
Gerund
	perfurando
Past participle
Masculine	perfurado			perfurados
Feminine	perfurada			perfuradas
Indicative
Present	perfuro	perfuras	perfura	perfuramos	perfurais	perfuram
Imperfect	perfurava	perfuravas	perfurava	perfurávamos	perfuráveis	perfuravam
Preterite	perfurei	perfuraste	perfurou	perfuramos1, perfurámos2	perfurastes	perfuraram
Pluperfect	perfurara	perfuraras	perfurara	perfuráramos	perfuráreis	perfuraram
Future	perfurarei	perfurarás	perfurará	perfuraremos	perfurareis	perfurarão
Conditional	perfuraria	perfurarias	perfuraria	perfuraríamos	perfuraríeis	perfurariam
Subjunctive
Present	perfure	perfures	perfure	perfuremos	perfureis	perfurem
Imperfect	perfurasse	perfurasses	perfurasse	perfurássemos	perfurásseis	perfurassem
Future	perfurar	perfurares	perfurar	perfurarmos	perfurardes	perfurarem
Imperative
Affirmative		perfura	perfure	perfuremos	perfurai	perfurem
Negative (não)		não perfures	não perfure	não perfuremos	não perfureis	não perfurem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Related terms

• perfuração

Further reading

• “perfurar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024