obrigado

From obrigar +‎ -ado.

• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: o‧bri‧ga‧do

obrigado (feminine obrigada, masculine plural obrigados, feminine plural obrigadas)

1. past participle of obrigar

obrigado (feminine obrigada, masculine plural obrigados, feminine plural obrigadas)

1. obliged, forced
   • 1461, M. Lucas Álvarez, Pedro Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 283:

     pagaredes ao dito moesteiro a renda que eu del sõõ obrigada de pagar

     you'll pay to said monastery the rent I'm obliged to pay

2. obliged, indebted due to a favor
   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     Afonso:
     Eu polo menos Christobo
     os que son ben incrinados,
     querolles polo vivir,
     e mais ei de ver ogano
     se o podo por na Escola.
     Christobo:
     Tendesme moy obrigado,
     Afonso Deus bolo pague,
     porque eu non podo pagalo.

     Afonso:
     "I at least, Christobo,
     for those who are well predisposed,
     I want to make them a living
     and I'll try this year
     to put him in school."
     Christobo:
     "You have me very obliged,
     Afonso, God bless you,
     because I can't pay for it"

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “obrigad”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “obrigado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “obrigado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “obrigado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• brigado (colloquial)
• obg (Internet slang)

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin obligātus (“obliged”), past participle of obligō (“to bind in obligation”).

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• Hyphenation: o‧bri‧ga‧do

obrigado

1. thanks; thank you

   Synonyms: agradecido, obrigada, (Brazil, slang) valeu, (Mozambique) canimambo

   Obrigado por tudo. ― Thank you for everything.

• There is variation regarding the gender-based use of this interjection, with the form obrigado, rather than obrigada, being often used by females as well. This usage is often proscribed, nonetheless.
• Additionally, obrigados should be used, according to the standard grammar, when speaking as a group (either only males, or males and females), and obrigadas when speaking as a group of females. However, these plural forms are rarely used.

obrigado (feminine obrigada, masculine plural obrigados, feminine plural obrigadas)

1. obligatory; mandatory (required or commanded by authority)

   Synonyms: mandatório, obrigatório, requerido

   Antonyms: facultativo, opcional, optativo

2. (formal) grateful, thankful

   Synonyms: agradecido, grato, reconhecido

obrigado m (plural obrigados, feminine obrigada, feminine plural obrigadas)

1. (law) someone bound by a legal obligation

   Antonym: desobrigado

obrigado m (plural obrigados)

1. a thank you (instance of expressing gratitude)

obrigado (feminine obrigada, masculine plural obrigados, feminine plural obrigadas)

1. past participle of obrigar