fardar

Portuguese

Etymology

From farda (“uniform”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /faʁˈda(ʁ)/ [faɦˈda(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /faʁˈda(ʁ)/ [faɦˈda(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /faɾˈda(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /faʁˈda(ʁ)/ [faʁˈda(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /faɻˈda(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐɾˈdaɾ/ [fɐɾˈðaɾ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐɾˈdaɾ/ [fɐɾˈðaɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐɾˈda.ɾi/ [fɐɾˈða.ɾi]

• Hyphenation: far‧dar

Verb

fardar (first-person singular present fardo, first-person singular preterite fardei, past participle fardado)

1. (transitive) to dress in uniform
2. (pronominal) to put on one's uniform

Conjugation

    Conjugation of fardar (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	fardar
Personal	fardar	fardares	fardar	fardarmos	fardardes	fardarem
Gerund
	fardando
Past participle
Masculine	fardado			fardados
Feminine	fardada			fardadas
Indicative
Present	fardo	fardas	farda	fardamos	fardais	fardam
Imperfect	fardava	fardavas	fardava	fardávamos	fardáveis	fardavam
Preterite	fardei	fardaste	fardou	fardamos1, fardámos2	fardastes	fardaram
Pluperfect	fardara	fardaras	fardara	fardáramos	fardáreis	fardaram
Future	fardarei	fardarás	fardará	fardaremos	fardareis	fardarão
Conditional	fardaria	fardarias	fardaria	fardaríamos	fardaríeis	fardariam
Subjunctive
Present	farde	fardes	farde	fardemos	fardeis	fardem
Imperfect	fardasse	fardasses	fardasse	fardássemos	fardásseis	fardassem
Future	fardar	fardares	fardar	fardarmos	fardardes	fardarem
Imperative
Affirmative		farda	farde	fardemos	fardai	fardem
Negative (não)		não fardes	não farde	não fardemos	não fardeis	não fardem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Derived terms

• fardado

Further reading

• “fardar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “fardar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “fardar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “fardar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faɾˈdaɾ/ [faɾˈð̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: far‧dar

Verb

fardar (first-person singular present fardo, first-person singular preterite fardé, past participle fardado)

1. (colloquial) to show off
2. (colloquial) to look great

Conjugation

    Conjugation of fardar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			fardar
gerund			fardando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		fardado		fardada
		plural		fardados		fardadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	fardo	fardastú fardásvos	farda	fardamos	fardáis	fardan
	imperfect	fardaba	fardabas	fardaba	fardábamos	fardabais	fardaban
	preterite	fardé	fardaste	fardó	fardamos	fardasteis	fardaron
	future	fardaré	fardarás	fardará	fardaremos	fardaréis	fardarán
	conditional	fardaría	fardarías	fardaría	fardaríamos	fardaríais	fardarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	farde	fardestú fardésvos2	farde	fardemos	fardéis	farden
	imperfect (ra)	fardara	fardaras	fardara	fardáramos	fardarais	fardaran
	imperfect (se)	fardase	fardases	fardase	fardásemos	fardaseis	fardasen
	future1	fardare	fardares	fardare	fardáremos	fardareis	fardaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		fardatú fardávos	farde	fardemos	fardad	farden
	negative		no fardes	no farde	no fardemos	no fardéis	no farden

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “fardar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024