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adubar

Portuguese, verb/a.duˈba(ʁ)/

adubar is spelled A-D-U-B-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 106,884th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adubar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fertilize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estrumar”.

What does adubar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to fertilize

  2. 2

    to season (especially with something fatty)

  3. 3

    to tan, to prepare (hides)

  4. 4

    to add, to augment

  5. 5

    archaicto adorn

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. estrumar 2. curtir

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.

Forms of adubar

  • adubo first-person present singular
  • adubei first-person preterite singular
  • adubado participle past
  • adubares infinitive second-person singular
  • adubarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • adubardes infinitive plural second-person
  • adubarem infinitive plural third-person
  • adubando gerund
  • adubados masculine participle past
  • adubada feminine participle past
  • adubadas feminine participle past
  • adubas indicative present second-person
  • aduba indicative present singular
  • adubamos first-person indicative plural
  • adubais indicative plural present
  • adubam indicative plural present
  • adubava first-person imperfect indicative
  • adubavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce adubar?

  • Brazil /a.duˈba(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [a.duˈba(h)]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is adubar in Portuguese?

adubar appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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