flagrar
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin flagrāre (“to burn, to blaze”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: fla‧grar
Verb edit
flagrar (first-person singular present flagro, first-person singular preterite flagrei, past participle flagrado)
- (Brazil, transitive) to catch in the act (to catch someone doing something considered criminal or otherwise wrong)
- O criminoso foi flagrado saindo da casa roubada.
- The criminal was caught leaving the robbed house.
- (intransitive) to burn, to blaze
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of flagrar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.