abraçava
Portuguese, verb
abraçava is spelled A-B-R-A-Ç-A-V-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 50,963rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abraçava is a Portuguese verb meaning “first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of abraçar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito imperfeito do indicativo do verbo abraçar”.
What does abraçava mean in English?
verb
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first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of abraçar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito imperfeito do indicativo do verbo abraçar
verb: 1. terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito imperfeito do indicativo do verbo abracar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is abraçava in Portuguese?
abraçava appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).