avocar
Portuguese, verb/a.voˈka(ʁ)/
avocar is spelled A-V-O-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese, the 236,506th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avocar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to task; to give a responsibility (to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “chamar a si”.
What does avocar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to task; to give a responsibility (to)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. chamar a si 2. (prep. a, para) levar à adesão de; atrair 3. atribuir-se; arrogar-se
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 avocar
- avoco first-person present singular
- avoquei first-person preterite singular
- avocado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- avocares infinitive second-person singular
- avocarmos first-person infinitive plural
- avocardes infinitive plural second-person
- avocarem infinitive plural third-person
- avocando gerund
- avocados masculine participle past
- avocada feminine participle past
- avocadas feminine participle past
- avocas indicative present second-person
- avoca indicative present singular
- avocamos first-person indicative plural
- avocais indicative plural present
- avocam indicative plural present
- avocava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avocar?
- Brazil /a.voˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.voˈka(h)]
- /a.voˈka(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is avocar in Portuguese?
avocar 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).