This is the 5293rd most frequent Portuguese word.
quadras
"Quadras" in Portuguese translates to "blocks" (as in city blocks) or "courts" (as in sports courts) in English.
Here, 'quadras' refers to specific areas designated for playing sports, such as tennis courts or basketball courts.
As crianças estão brincando nas quadras esportivas.
The children are playing on the sports courts.
In this sentence, 'quadras' means city blocks, indicating sections of a neighborhood or urban area.
Durante o passeio, caminhamos por várias quadras antes de encontrar o parque.
During the walk, we walked several blocks before finding the park.
Here, 'quadras' refers to stanzas in a poem, representing structured groupings of verses within a literary composition.