The Portuguese word for time is
tempo
Gender
The gender of tempo is masculine. E.g. o tempo.Plural
The plural of tempo is tempos.Portuguese Definition
| time | |
| 1. Substantivo. tempo | |
| 2. Substantivo. momento, hora | |
| 3. Verbo. medir tempo |
Translations for time and their definitions
| 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) |
| tempo | |
| 1. n-m. time (the progression from the present into the future) | |
| 2. n-m. time (quantity of availability of duration) | |
| Não há tempo para explicar, entra no carro! - There is no time to explain, get in the car! | |
| 3. n-m. a duration of time, especially a long one | |
| Ficara muito tempo na cadeia. - He had spent a lot of time in jail. | |
| 4. n-m. weather (state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place) | |
| 5. n-m. time; era; period | |
| O tempo dos dinossauros. - The time of the dinosaurs. | |
| 6. n-m. season (part of a year when something particular happens) | |
| É tempo de colheita. - It is harvest season. | |
| 7. n-m. (grammar) tense (forms of a verb which distinguish when an action occurs) | |
| 8. n-m. (sports) a subdivision of the duration of a match (such as halves in football, quarters in basketball) | |
| 9. interj. (sports) time out (call for a time-out) |
| horas | |
| 1. n. plural of hora |
| era | |
| 1. n-f. era (time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year) | |
| 2. n-f. (archaeology) age (period of human prehistory) | |
| 3. n-f. (geology) era (unit of time, smaller than aeons and greater than periods) | |
| 4. v. verb form of ser |
| hora | |
| 1. n-f. hour (period of sixty minutes) | |
| Há vinte e quatro horas num dia. - There are twenty-four hours in a day. | |
| Ele estava aqui há uma hora. - He was here one hour ago. | |
| 2. n-f. time (point in time) | |
| A alguma hora, eu passo aí. - At some time, I’ll hop over there. | |
| Que horas são? - What time is it? | |
| É hora de dar tchau. - It's time to say goodbye. |
| cronometrar | |
| 1. v. to time (to measure time) |
| época | |
| 1. n-f. time, season | |
| 2. n-f. age, period, epoch (particular period of history) |
| horário | |
| 1. n-m. timetable | |
| 2. n-m. schedule | |
| 3. n-m. hour (as in horário de pico and horário de almoço) | |
| 4. n-m. (Madeira, informal) bus | |
| 5. adj. hourly |
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