tarar

See also: tårar and tɑ́rɑr

Portuguese

Pronunciation

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

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐˈɾaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐˈɾa.ɾi/

Rhymes: -aɾ
Hyphenation: ta‧rar

Verb

tarar (first-person singular present taro, first-person singular preterite tarei, past participle tarado)

(transitive) to tare (to indicate the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise)

Conjugation

Conjugation of tarar (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	tarar
Personal	tarar	tarares	tarar	tararmos	tarardes	tararem
Gerund
	tarando
Past participle
Masculine	tarado			tarados
Feminine	tarada			taradas
Indicative
Present	taro	taras	tara	taramos	tarais	taram
Imperfect	tarava	taravas	tarava	tarávamos	taráveis	taravam
Preterite	tarei	taraste	tarou	taramos¹, tarámos²	tarastes	tararam
Pluperfect	tarara	tararas	tarara	taráramos	taráreis	tararam
Future	tararei	tararás	tarará	tararemos	tarareis	tararão
Conditional	tararia	tararias	tararia	tararíamos	tararíeis	tarariam
Subjunctive
Present	tare	tares	tare	taremos	tareis	tarem
Imperfect	tarasse	tarasses	tarasse	tarássemos	tarásseis	tarassem
Future	tarar	tarares	tarar	tararmos	tarardes	tararem
Imperative
Affirmative		tara	tare	taremos	tarai	tarem
Negative (não)		não tares	não tare	não taremos	não tareis	não tarem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Related terms

tara
tarado

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

From tara +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /taˈɾaɾ/ [t̪aˈɾaɾ]
Rhymes: -aɾ
Syllabification: ta‧rar

Verb

tarar (first-person singular present taro, first-person singular preterite taré, past participle tarado)

(transitive) to tare (to indicate the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise)

Conjugation

Conjugation of tarar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

		singular			plural
infinitive			tarar
gerund			tarando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		tarado		tarada
		plural		tarados		taradas
		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	taro	taras^{^tú} tarás^{^vos}	tara	taramos	taráis	taran
	imperfect	taraba	tarabas	taraba	tarábamos	tarabais	taraban
	preterite	taré	taraste	taró	taramos	tarasteis	tararon
	future	tararé	tararás	tarará	tararemos	tararéis	tararán
	conditional	tararía	tararías	tararía	tararíamos	tararíais	tararían

subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	tare	tares^{^tú} tarés^{^vos²}	tare	taremos	taréis	taren
	imperfect (ra)	tarara	tararas	tarara	taráramos	tararais	tararan
	imperfect (se)	tarase	tarases	tarase	tarásemos	taraseis	tarasen
	future¹	tarare	tarares	tarare	taráremos	tarareis	tararen

imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		tara^{^tú} tará^{^vos}	tare	taremos	tarad	taren
	negative		no tares	no tare	no taremos	no taréis	no taren

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

Derived terms

tarado

Further reading

“tarar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025