arengar
Portuguese, verb/a.ɾẽˈɡa(ʁ)/
arengar is spelled A-R-E-N-G-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written Portuguese, the 225,105th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arengar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to annoy; to bother; to bug” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pronunciar difusamente”.
What does arengar mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto annoy; to bother; to bug
- 2
colloquialto quarrel; to feud
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pronunciar difusamente 2. fazer arenga 3. iludir fingindo que trabalha e não fazendo quase nada
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 arengar
- arengo first-person present singular
- arenguei first-person preterite singular
- arengado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- arengares infinitive second-person singular
- arengarmos first-person infinitive plural
- arengardes infinitive plural second-person
- arengarem infinitive plural third-person
- arengando gerund
- arengados masculine participle past
- arengada feminine participle past
- arengadas feminine participle past
- arengas indicative present second-person
- arenga indicative present singular
- arengamos first-person indicative plural
- arengais indicative plural present
- arengam indicative plural present
- arengava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arengar?
- Brazil /a.ɾẽˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.ɾẽˈɡa(h)]
- /a.ɾẽˈɡa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is arengar in Portuguese?
arengar appears about once in every 66 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).