cada

See also:Appendix:Variations of "cada"

Asturian

Alternative forms

• ca

Etymology

FromLatincata(“by, for each”),fromAncient Greekκατά(katá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈkada/,[ˈka.ð̞a]
• Rhymes:-ada
• Hyphenation:ca‧da

Adjective

cada

1. each,every

Derived terms

• cada cuando
• cada muncho
• cada poco

Catalan

Etymology

InheritedfromLatincata(“by, for each”),fromAncient Greekκατά(katá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic)[ˈka.ðə]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[ˈka.ða]

Adjective

cada

1. each
2. every

Derived terms

• cada u
• cada un
• cada vegada més

Related terms

• cadascú,cadascun

Further reading

• “cada”inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cada”,inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2024
• “cada”inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cada”inDiccionari català-valencià-balear,Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

FromOld Galician-Portuguesecada,fromLatincata(“by, for each”),fromAncient Greekκατά(katá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈkada/[ˈkɑ.ð̞ɐ]
• Rhymes:-ada
• Hyphenation:ca‧da

Noun

cada

1. each

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈka.da/
• Rhymes:-ada
• Hyphenation:cà‧da

Verb

cada

1. inflection ofcadere:
   1. first/second/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personsingularimperative

Occitan

Alternative forms

• chasca(Auvergne,Limousin,Provençal,Vivaro-Alpine)

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

cadamorf(feminine singularcada,masculine pluralcadas,feminine pluralcadas)(Languedoc,Gascony)

1. each
2. every

Portuguese

Etymology

FromOld Galician-Portuguesecada,fromLatincata(“by”),fromAncient Greekκατά(katá).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil)IPA^(key):/ka.dɐ/

• (Brazil)IPA^(key):/ka.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil)IPA^(key):/ka.da/

• (Portugal)IPA^(key):/kɐ.dɐ/[kɐ.ðɐ]

• Hyphenation:ca‧da

Pronoun

cada

1. each,every(qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items)

   Cadaprato deve ser lavado.

   Eachplate must be washed.

2. used as anintensifier

   Fazescadaloucura!

   You commitall sorts ofcrazy acts.

   Minha mãe fazcadabolo que nem o espero esfriar.

   My mother makessuch acake that I don’t even wait for it to cool down.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, seeCitations:cada.

Derived terms

• cada qual
• cada um
• cada uma

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):[ˈkada]

Noun

cadaf

1. definitenominative/accusativesingularofcadă

Spanish

Etymology

InheritedfromOld Spanishcada,fromLatincata,fromAncient Greekκατά(katá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈkada/[ˈka.ð̞a]

• Audio(Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ada
• Syllabification:ca‧da

Determiner

cada

1. each;every
   • 2008,Idan Raichel,Cada Día:

     Cadadía alguien me habla de ti
     intentando sacar el dolor de mi alma
     Cadadía alguien me habla de ti
     intentando explicarme que ya no volverás

     Everyday someone speaks of you to me,
     trying to quell the pain in my soul
     Everyday someone speaks of you to me,
     trying to explain to me that you aren't coming back

Usage notes

• Although an indefinite determiner (which means by definition that it modifies a noun),cadadoes not undergo any kind of inflection. In other words, its ending will not change to-owhen modifying a masculine noun. It remainscada.

Derived terms

• a cada instante
• a cada momento
• a cada paso
• a cada trinquete
• a cada trique
• a cada triquete
• a cada triquitraque
• a cada uno lo suyo(“to each his own”)
• cada cosa para su cosa
• cada cual
• cada cuando que
• cada hora
• cada instante
• cada lunes y cada martes
• cada mochuelo a su olivo
• cada momento
• cada que
• cada quien
• cada tercer día
• cada uno
• cada vez que
• cada X tiempo
• de cada día

Further reading

• “cada”,inDiccionario de la lengua española(in Spanish), online version 23.7,Royal Spanish Academy,2023 November 28