aguarda

Aguarda is a Portuguese verb form derived from the verb aguardar, meaning to wait or to await. In standard Portuguese, aguarda is the third-person singular present indicative: Ele aguarda a resposta. It is also used as the informal second-person singular imperative in many varieties of the language, as in Aguarda!, meaning “Wait!”

The infinitive of the family is aguardar, and aguarda appears in sentences that express waiting for a future event, a decision, a result, or the moment to act. It can convey patience, anticipation, or the postponement of an action until a condition is met. While aguardar is the more general or formal form when referring to the act itself, aguarda often appears in spoken language as a concise way to describe the ongoing waiting or to issue a command to someone directly.

Etymologically, aguarda develops from aguardar and is cognate with the Spanish aguardar. The Portuguese verb is part of a broader Romance-language pattern around verbs meaning to wait or to hope, sharing semantic connections with words like esperar in related languages.

In contemporary usage, aguarda appears in everyday speech, journalism, literature, and formal writing when describing the act of waiting, the expectation of a result, or the moment before an event occurs. Its meaning remains closely tied to timing, patience, and the sequence of events that precede action.