trabalhar

Meaning

to work (to do a specific task)

Hyphenated as

tra‧ba‧lhar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɾa.baˈʎa(ʁ)/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese traballar, from Vulgar Latin *tripāliāre (“torment”), derived from Late Latin tripālium (“torture instrument”). Compare Galician traballar, Spanish trabajar. By surface analysis, trabalho + -ar.

Sentences

Como você gostaria de trabalhar para mim ?

How would you like to work for me?

Ouvi dizer que ele vai trabalhar desta vez .

I heard he's going to work this time.

Ela deu a cada um deles metade para fazê-los trabalhar juntos .

She gave each of them half to make them work together.

A partir deste momento as luzes devem ser desligadas , você deve trabalhar ou não .

From this moment the lights must be turned off, you must work or not.

A força é trabalhar com os silos .

The strength is working with the silos.