bocejar
Portuguese, verb/bo.seˈʒa(ʁ)/
bocejar is spelled B-O-C-E-J-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 65,361st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bocejar is a Portuguese verb meaning “yawn (open the mouth and take a deep breath)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer bocejos; abrir a boca de forma involuntária, quando se tem sono ou fome ou quando se está aborrecido”.
What does bocejar mean in English?
verb
- 1
yawn (open the mouth and take a deep breath)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer bocejos; abrir a boca de forma involuntária, quando se tem sono ou fome ou quando se está aborrecido: 2. dar indícios de aborrecimento ou enfado:
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 bocejar
- bocejo first-person present singular
- bocejei first-person preterite singular
- bocejado participle past
- bocejares infinitive second-person singular
- bocejarmos first-person infinitive plural
- bocejardes infinitive plural second-person
- bocejarem infinitive plural third-person
- bocejando gerund
- bocejados masculine participle past
- bocejada feminine participle past
- bocejadas feminine participle past
- bocejas indicative present second-person
- boceja indicative present singular
- bocejamos first-person indicative plural
- bocejais indicative plural present
- bocejam indicative plural present
- bocejava first-person imperfect indicative
- bocejavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bocejar?
- Brazil /bo.seˈʒa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [bo.seˈʒa(h)]
- /bo.seˈʒa(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 bocejar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bocejar in Portuguese?
bocejar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).