concordar

concordar

1. to agree

From Latin concordāre, probably a semi-learned borrowing.

• Hyphenation: con‧cor‧dar

concordar (first-person singular present concordo, first-person singular preterite concordei, past participle concordado)

1. (intransitive) to agree (to have the same opinion as)

   Eu concordo com a Julia.

   I agree with Julia.

2. (intransitive) to agree (to be in favour of a given practice)

   Eu não concordo com a queima dos livros.

   I don’t agree with the burning of the books.

3. (intransitive, grammar) to agree (to have the same number, gender, tense or another category as another word)

   Na oração “os mulheres”, o artigo concorda com o substantivo em número mas não em género.

   In the clause “os mulheres”, the article agrees with the noun in number but not in gender.

4. (intransitive) to agree with one another (to all have the same opinion)

   Os médicos concordam: fumar é perigoso.

   Doctors agree: smoking is dangerous.

5. (transitive) to make (something) be in agreement or accordance

   A igreja precisa concordar seus dogmas com a realidade moderna.

   The church needs to accord its dogmas with modern reality.

• discordar

From Latin concordāre.

• IPA^(key): /konkoɾˈdaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: con‧cor‧dar

concordar (first-person singular present concuerdo, first-person singular preterite concordé, past participle concordado)

1. to agree

• “concordar”, 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