cagar
Portuguese, verb/kaˈɡa(ʁ)/
cagar is spelled C-A-G-A-R (5 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,037th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cagar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to shit; to defecate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “expelir pelo ânus; defecar”.
What does cagar mean in English?
verb
- 1
vulgarto shit; to defecate
- 2
slangvulgarto shit oneself (to be very scared)
Caguei-me todo na montanha-russa.
- 3
slangvulgarto get lucky
- 4
vulgarto ignore
Casgaste completamente para a mensagem que te mandei.
- 5
vulgarnot to give a shit (to really not care)
Se ele não quer ir à festa, o problema é dele. Pessoalmente, tou-me a cagar!
- 6
Brazilvulgarto fuck up; to botch; to screw up; to crap up (to do something incorrectly)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. expelir pelo ânus; defecar 2. sujar 3. ter sorte 4. pôr a perder; arruinar
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 cagar
- cago first-person present singular
- caguei first-person preterite singular
- cagado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- cagares infinitive second-person singular
- cagarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cagardes infinitive plural second-person
- cagarem infinitive plural third-person
- cagando gerund
- cagados masculine participle past
- cagada feminine participle past
- cagadas feminine participle past
- cagas indicative present second-person
- caga indicative present singular
- cagamos first-person indicative plural
- cagais indicative plural present
- cagam indicative plural present
- cagava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cagar?
- Brazil /kaˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kaˈɡa(h)]
- /kaˈɡa(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 cagar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cagar in Portuguese?
cagar appears 3.7 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).