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bancar

bancar

Portuguese

Verb

bancar (first-person singular present indicative banco, past participle bancado)

  1. (transitive) to fund, to finance;
  2. (colloquial, copulative) to behave like [some kind of person], to play.

Usage notes

  • The copulative sense is followed by the definite article, e.g. bancar o conquistador (play the conqueror).

Conjugation

References

  • HOUAISS, A. and DE SALLES VILLAR, M. Minidicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa. Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, 2008.

Spanish

Verb

bancar

  1. to finance, pay for
  2. (reflexive) to cope, put up with

Conjugation

  • c becomes qu before e.