assoar
Portuguese, verb/a.soˈa(ʁ)/
assoar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to blow one's nose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “limpar das mucosidades o nariz de”.
What does assoar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to blow one's nose
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. limpar das mucosidades o nariz de
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 assoar
- assoo first-person present singular
- assoei first-person preterite singular
- assoado participle past
- assoar-se impersonal infinitive
- assoar-me first-person infinitive singular
- assoares-te infinitive second-person singular
- assoarmo-nos first-person infinitive plural
- assoardes-vos infinitive plural second-person
- assoarem-se infinitive plural third-person
- assoando-se gerund
- assoados masculine participle past
- assoada feminine participle past
- assoadas feminine participle past
- assoo-me first-person indicative present
- assôo-me Brazil first-person indicative
- assoas-te indicative present second-person
- assoa-se indicative present singular
- assoamo-nos first-person indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce assoar?
- Brazil /a.soˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.soˈa(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is assoar in Portuguese?
assoar appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).