aparvalhar
Portuguese, verb/a.paʁ.vaˈʎa(ʁ)/
aparvalhar is spelled A-P-A-R-V-A-L-H-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese, the 236,506th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aparvalhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to become stupid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar parvo”.
What does aparvalhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to become stupid
- 2
to disorient, confuse
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar parvo 2. tornar pasmado 3. desnortear 4. atrapalhar
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 aparvalhar
- aparvalho first-person present singular
- aparvalhei first-person preterite singular
- aparvalhado participle past
- aparvalhares infinitive second-person singular
- aparvalharmos first-person infinitive plural
- aparvalhardes infinitive plural second-person
- aparvalharem infinitive plural third-person
- aparvalhando gerund
- aparvalhados masculine participle past
- aparvalhada feminine participle past
- aparvalhadas feminine participle past
- aparvalhas indicative present second-person
- aparvalha indicative present singular
- aparvalhamos first-person indicative plural
- aparvalhais indicative plural present
- aparvalham indicative plural present
- aparvalhava first-person imperfect indicative
- aparvalhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aparvalhar?
- Brazil /a.paʁ.vaˈʎa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.paɦ.vaˈʎa(h)]
- Portugal /ɐ.pɐɾ.vɐ.ˈʎaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aparvalhar in Portuguese?
aparvalhar appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).