atolar
Portuguese, verb/a.toˈla(ʁ)/
atolar is spelled A-T-O-L-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 81,082nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Atolar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to bog down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “meter em atoleiro”.
What does atolar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bog down
- 2
to get bogged down, to get stuck in the mud
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. meter em atoleiro 2. atascar
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 atolar
- atolo first-person present singular
- atolei first-person preterite singular
- atolado participle past
- atolares infinitive second-person singular
- atolarmos first-person infinitive plural
- atolardes infinitive plural second-person
- atolarem infinitive plural third-person
- atolando gerund
- atolados masculine participle past
- atolada feminine participle past
- atoladas feminine participle past
- atolas indicative present second-person
- atola indicative present singular
- atolamos first-person indicative plural
- atolais indicative plural present
- atolam indicative plural present
- atolava first-person imperfect indicative
- atolavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce atolar?
- Brazil /a.toˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.toˈla(h)]
- /a.toˈla(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to atolar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is atolar in Portuguese?
atolar appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).