currar

Latin

Verb

currar

1. inflection of currō:
   1. first-person singular future passive indicative
   2. first-person singular present passive subjunctive

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuˈʁa(ʁ)/ [kuˈha(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuˈʁa(ʁ)/ [kuˈha(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kuˈʁa(ɾ)/ [kuˈha(ɾ)]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kuˈʁa(ʁ)/ [kuˈχa(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuˈʁa(ɻ)/ [kuˈha(ɻ)]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈʁaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈʁaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈʁa.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: cur‧rar

Verb

currar (first-person singular present curro, first-person singular preterite currei, past participle currado)

1. (Brazil, transitive, vulgar, slang) to rape
2. (Brazil, transitive, vulgar, slang) to fuck
3. (Brazil, transitive, intransitive, slang) to cheat
4. (Brazil, transitive, intransitive, slang) to steal

Conjugation

    Conjugation of currar (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	currar
Personal	currar	currares	currar	currarmos	currardes	currarem
Gerund
	currando
Past participle
Masculine	currado			currados
Feminine	currada			curradas
Indicative
Present	curro	curras	curra	curramos	currais	curram
Imperfect	currava	curravas	currava	currávamos	curráveis	curravam
Preterite	currei	curraste	currou	curramos1, currámos2	currastes	curraram
Pluperfect	currara	curraras	currara	curráramos	curráreis	curraram
Future	currarei	currarás	currará	curraremos	currareis	currarão
Conditional	curraria	currarias	curraria	curraríamos	curraríeis	currariam
Subjunctive
Present	curre	curres	curre	curremos	curreis	currem
Imperfect	currasse	currasses	currasse	currássemos	currásseis	currassem
Future	currar	currares	currar	currarmos	currardes	currarem
Imperative
Affirmative		curra	curre	curremos	currai	currem
Negative (não)		não curres	não curre	não curremos	não curreis	não currem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Further reading

• “currar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “currar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “currar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Caló currar, cf. Sanskrit कृणोति (kṛṇoti, “to make”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈraɾ/ [kuˈraɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cu‧rrar

Verb

currar (first-person singular present curro, first-person singular preterite curré, past participle currado)

1. (Spain, colloquial, intransitive) to work

   Synonyms: currelar, faenar, trabajar, (Mexico) chambear; see also Thesaurus:trabajar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of currar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			currar
gerund			currando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		currado		currada
		plural		currados		curradas
		singular			plural
		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	curro	currastú currásvos	curra	curramos	curráis	curran
	imperfect	curraba	currabas	curraba	currábamos	currabais	curraban
	preterite	curré	curraste	curró	curramos	currasteis	curraron
	future	curraré	currarás	currará	curraremos	curraréis	currarán
	conditional	curraría	currarías	curraría	curraríamos	curraríais	currarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	curre	currestú currésvos2	curre	curremos	curréis	curren
	imperfect (ra)	currara	curraras	currara	curráramos	currarais	curraran
	imperfect (se)	currase	currases	currase	currásemos	curraseis	currasen
	future1	currare	currares	currare	curráremos	currareis	curraren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		curratú currávos	curre	curremos	currad	curren
	negative		no curres	no curre	no curremos	no curréis	no curren

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Derived terms

• curro (noun)

Further reading

• “currar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10