The Portuguese word for to turn is
virar
Portuguese Definition
| turn | |
| 1. Substantivo. vez | |
| 2. Substantivo. giro | |
| 3. Verbo. embrulhar | |
| 4. Verbo. virar | |
| 5. Verbo. girar | |
| 6. Verbo. dobrar | |
| 7. Verbo. transformar | |
| 8. Verbo. tornear | |
| 9. Verbo. azedar (em se falando de leite, por exemplo) | |
| 10. Verbo. (Cronologia) passar a ter, completar, fazer | |
| Today she is turning twenty. (Hoje ela está completando vinte) | |
| 11. Verbo. voltar, voltar-se | |
| They have no idea how proceed and don't know where to turn. (Eles não têm ideia de como proceder e não sabem para onde se voltar) | |
| You have to turn your focus toward something more constructive. (Você tem de voltar seu foco para algo mais construtivo) |
Translations for turn and their definitions
| jogada | |
| 1. Participle. feminine singular of jogado |
| girar | |
| 1. v. to turn; to rotate (change one’s own orientation) | |
| 2. v. to turn; to rotate (change the orientation of something) |
| vez | |
| 1. n-f. time; occasion | |
| Ver-te-ei outra vez. - I’ll see you another time. | |
| Vencemos quatro vezes seguidas. - We won four times in a row. | |
| 2. n-f. move (chance to use something shared in sequence with others) | |
| 3. n-f. (games) turn; move (one’s chance to make a move in a game having two or more players) |
| virada | |
| 1. n-f. turning, turn (change of direction or orientation) | |
| 2. n-f. Brazil ellipsis of virada do ano, , New Year's Eve celebration | |
| 3. Participle. feminine singular of virado |
| giro | |
| 1. n-m. rotation, turn (the act of turning around a centre or an axis) | |
| Ele fez um giro de 180 graus. - He has made a turnaround of a hundred and eighty degrees. | |
| 2. adj. (Portugal, colloquial) pretty, beautiful | |
| O papel de parede é muito giro. - The wallpaper is very pretty. | |
| Sim, ela é gira. - Yes, she is pretty. | |
| 3. v. verb form of girar | |
| 4. v. verb form of gerir |
| virar | |
| 1. v. to turn (to change direction) | |
| No semáforo, vire à esquerda. - At the traffic lights, turn left. | |
| 2. v. to turn around (to reverse direction) | |
| Cheguei a segui-la por um tempo, mas, quando ela virou para mim, eu já não sabia o que dizer. - I even followed her for a while, but, when she turned to me, I no longer knew what to say. | |
| 3. v. (nautical, ergative) to capsize | |
| 4. v. (ergative, of an opinion) to topple, to overturn | |
| 5. v. to drink up (to empty a recipient of the liquid therein by drinking it through) | |
| E aí, vira uma dessa comigo? - Whatcha say, drink up one of these with me? | |
| 6. v. (ergative, of a stomach) to upset | |
| 7. v. (Brazil, colloquial, copulative) to become, to turn into, to transform, to convert | |
| Ela ter aparecido na TV fez com que ela virasse uma espécie de subcelebridade entre os amigos. - Her appearing on TV made her becoming a sort of subcelebrity among her friends. | |
| O cara era o maior vida louca, sério, e ainda assim virou evangélico, do nada! - The dude was a plain gangsta, really, and even so turned into a born-again Christian, all of a sudden! | |
| 8. v. (Brazil, colloquial, reflexive) to make do, to deal with | |
| Ainda não sei muito bem como é que eu vou fazer, mas pode deixar que eu me viro assim mesmo. - I still don't know how exactly I'm gonna make it, but don't worry, I'll handle it anyway. | |
| 9. v. (Brazil, colloquial, reflexive) to get by, to make ends meet, to push forward | |
| Que é difícil, é, né? Mas Deus ajuda, e a gente vai se virando como pode. - Yeah, it's difficult, that's right. But God helps, and we keep pushing forward as we can. | |
| 10. v. (Brazil, colloquial, ergative) to pull an all-nighter, to stay awake all night | |
| E aí, bora virar hoje jogando um Warzinho? - So, how about we spend this night playing some Risk? | |
| A nenê chorou a noite inteira, e eu fui trabalhar virada. - The baby cried all night long, and I went to work without having slept. | |
| 11. v. (Brazil, colloquial, copulative, with preposition "em", chiefly of spiritual entities) to embody, to incarnate | |
| Na Umbanda, até um branco pode virar num Preto-Velho. - In Umbanda, even a White may receive an Old Black. | |
| Ontem eu acordei virado no Jiraya - Yesterday I woke up super stressed (that is, inspired by the Japanese series Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya). | |
| 12. v. (Brazil, colloquial, copulative, with preposition "em", chiefly of mental states) to strike, to stick, to infatuate | |
| Aquela mulher virou a cabeça dele. - That woman blew his mind. | |
| Ele ficou virado no amor. - He got stuck in love. |
| turno | |
| 1. n-m. shift (change of workers) |
| girada | |
| 1. n-f. turn (change of direction or orientation) | |
| 2. Participle. feminine singular of girado |
| prazo | |
| 1. n-m. deadline (date on or before which something must be completed) | |
| 2. n-m. expiration date | |
| 3. n-m. a period of time |
| tornear | |
| 1. v. to turn (to shape something on a lathe) |
| espira | |
| 1. n-f. turn (single loop of a coil) | |
| 2. v. verb form of espirar |
| estragar | |
| 1. v. to spoil, to damage, to corrupt, to ruin | |
| As chuvas estragaram a colheita. - The rains ruined the harvest. | |
| 2. v. to botch, bungle | |
| Ele não estraga nada. - He doesn't screw anything up. | |
| 3. v. to go bad (of foods and commodities) | |
| Estas laranjas estragaram-se. - These oranges have gone bad. |
| tornar-se | |
| 1. to become | |
| 2. to turn into |
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