acabar

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Em breve
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eles vão acabar .

Soon they will be over.

" A guerra vai acabar um dia ?" disse a menina
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“Is the war going to end one day?” the girl said.

(intransitive) to finish (to be over, completed)
(transitive) to complete; to finish (to make done)
(catenative) to end up (to eventually do)
(copulative) to end up; to turn out (to become, at the end of a process)
(auxiliary) See acabar de.
(intransitive) to destroy completely, to defeat thoroughly
(intransitive) to break up; to put an end to (to make an activity or practice stop)
(intransitive) to break up with (to end a relationship with)
(intransitive, pronominal) to run out (to be entirely used up)

Opposite of

começar, iniciar, inicializar

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/a.kaˈba(ʁ)/

Cognate with Spanish

acabar

Cognate with French

achever

Cognate with English

achieve

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese acabar, from Vulgar Latin *accapāre. Compare Spanish acabar, French achever and English achieve. By surface analysis, a- + cabo + -ar.