Ele blefou durante a rodada.

Blefou is the 3rd person singular form of the verb blefar in the pretérito perfeito (simple past).

• blefar = to bluff
• ele blefou = he bluffed

This tense is used for a completed action in the past.

Examples:

• Eu blefei. = I bluffed.
• Você blefou. = You bluffed.
• Ela blefou. = She bluffed.

Yes, blefar is a real and commonly understood Portuguese verb, especially in contexts like:

• card games
• poker
• negotiations
• everyday speech, when someone is pretending or faking confidence

It comes from the same idea as English to bluff, but it is fully used as a Portuguese verb and conjugated normally:

• blefar
• blefo
• blefou
• blefando

There is also the noun blefe:

• Foi um blefe. = It was a bluff.

In Portuguese, the subject pronoun is often optional because the verb form already gives information about the subject.

So both of these are possible:

• Ele blefou durante a rodada.
• Blefou durante a rodada.

Using ele makes the subject clearer or more emphatic. If the context already makes it obvious who did it, Portuguese often drops the pronoun.

Because blefar is a regular -ar verb, and in the simple past, the ele/ela/você form usually ends in -ou.

Pattern:

• falar → falou
• jogar → jogou
• blefar → blefou

So:

• infinitive: blefar
• past, he/she/you: blefou

Blefou is the simple past and usually describes a completed action:

• Ele blefou durante a rodada. = He bluffed during the round.

Blefava is the imperfect past, which can suggest repetition, habit, or an ongoing background action:

• Ele blefava sempre que estava perdendo. = He used to bluff whenever he was losing.
• Ele blefava, mas ninguém acreditava. = He was bluffing, but nobody believed him.

So:

• blefou = one completed bluffing action
• blefava = habitual or ongoing bluffing in the past

Durante means during, and a rodada means the round.

So durante a rodada means:

• during the round

Depending on context, rodada can refer to:

• a round in a card game
• a betting round
• a turn cycle in a game
• a round in a competition

This phrase sounds natural in game-related contexts.

These words can all relate to turns or rounds, but they are not used the same way.

rodada

Usually means round:

• a round in a game
• a round of betting
• a round in a competition

Example:

• Ele blefou durante a rodada.

vez

Usually means turn in the sense of someone’s chance/opportunity to act:

• É a minha vez. = It’s my turn.

turno

Usually means shift or time period, and in some contexts turn:

• work shift
• morning/afternoon/evening period
• election round in some contexts

In a game sentence like this, rodada is the most natural choice if you mean round.

Yes, sometimes you can, but there is a slight difference.

• durante a rodada = during the round, emphasizing the action happened within that time span
• na rodada = in the round / on that round, often a bit less explicit about duration

Examples:

• Ele blefou durante a rodada. = He bluffed during the round.
• Ele blefou na rodada final. = He bluffed in the final round.

Both can work, but durante a rodada more directly matches during the round.

A simple English-friendly approximation is:

bleh-FOH

Notes:

• ble- sounds like bleh
• the stress falls on the last syllable: ble-FOU
• the ending -ou in Brazilian Portuguese often sounds somewhat like oh

So:

• blefou ≈ bleh-FOH

Yes, it sounds natural, especially in a gaming or poker context.

A Brazilian speaker might also say things like:

• Ele deu um blefe durante a rodada.
• Ele estava blefando na rodada.
• Ele blefou naquela rodada.

But Ele blefou durante a rodada. is perfectly normal and clear.

Yes. Even though it is strongly associated with poker and card games, it can also be used more broadly to mean that someone is pretending, faking confidence, or making a threat/claim they may not be able to back up.

Examples:

• Ele blefou na negociação. = He bluffed in the negotiation.
• Acho que ela está blefando. = I think she’s bluffing.

So the word works both literally and figuratively.

The noun is blefe.

Examples:

• Foi um blefe. = It was a bluff.
• Ninguém caiu no blefe dele. = Nobody fell for his bluff.

Useful comparison:

• blefar = to bluff
• blefe = bluff

In this sentence, ele most naturally means he.

Grammatically, ele can sometimes refer to a masculine noun and could be translated as it in some contexts, but when it appears by itself as the subject of a sentence like this, learners should usually understand it as he unless the context clearly refers to an object or thing.

So here:

• Ele blefou durante a rodada. = He bluffed during the round.