beirar
Appearance
See also: beir ar
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: bei‧rar
Verb
[edit]beirar (first-person singular present beiro, first-person singular preterite beirei, past participle beirado)
- (transitive) to border; to skirt (to be on the edge of something)
- (transitive) to border on (to be almost like)
- Seus comentários beiram insultos. ― Your comments border on insults.
- (transitive) to be almost; to be nearly
- O custo do projeto beirava um bilhão de reais. ― The project’s cost was almost a billion reais.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of beirar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
[edit]- “beirar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “beirar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026