fanfar

Portuguese

Etymology

From fanfa (“braggart”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /fɐ̃ˈfa(ʁ)/ [fɐ̃ˈfa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /fɐ̃ˈfa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /fɐ̃ˈfa(ʁ)/ [fɐ̃ˈfa(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA^(key): /fɐ̃ˈfa(ɻ)/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐ̃ˈfaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐ̃ˈfa.ɾi/

Hyphenation: fan‧far

Verb

fanfar (first-person singular present fanfo, first-person singular preterite fanfei, past participle fanfado)

(Portugal, intransitive) to boast, to brag
Synonyms: fanfarrear, bazofiar

Com Fafe Ninguém Fanfe. ― With Fafe, no one brags and gets away with it.
(Portugal, colloquial, transitive) to beat; to beat up (to attack someone violently)
Synonym: bater

Conjugation

Conjugation of fanfar (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	fanfar
Personal	fanfar	fanfares	fanfar	fanfarmos	fanfardes	fanfarem
Gerund
	fanfando
Past participle
Masculine	fanfado			fanfados
Feminine	fanfada			fanfadas
Indicative
Present	fanfo	fanfas	fanfa	fanfamos	fanfais	fanfam
Imperfect	fanfava	fanfavas	fanfava	fanfávamos	fanfáveis	fanfavam
Preterite	fanfei	fanfaste	fanfou	fanfamos¹, fanfámos²	fanfastes	fanfaram
Pluperfect	fanfara	fanfaras	fanfara	fanfáramos	fanfáreis	fanfaram
Future	fanfarei	fanfarás	fanfará	fanfaremos	fanfareis	fanfarão
Conditional	fanfaria	fanfarias	fanfaria	fanfaríamos	fanfaríeis	fanfariam
Subjunctive
Present	fanfe	fanfes	fanfe	fanfemos	fanfeis	fanfem
Imperfect	fanfasse	fanfasses	fanfasse	fanfássemos	fanfásseis	fanfassem
Future	fanfar	fanfares	fanfar	fanfarmos	fanfardes	fanfarem
Imperative
Affirmative		fanfa	fanfe	fanfemos	fanfai	fanfem
Negative (não)		não fanfes	não fanfe	não fanfemos	não fanfeis	não fanfem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Further reading

“fanfar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“fanfar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
“fanfar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026

Swedish

Noun

fanfar c

fanfare (of trumpets or horns, or figuratively)
Produkten lanserades utan fanfar
The product was launched without fanfare (without promotion or the like)

Declension

Declension of **fanfar**
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	fanfar	fanfars
singular	definite	fanfaren	fanfarens
plural	indefinite	fanfarer	fanfarers
plural	definite	fanfarerna	fanfarernas

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