chocar
Portuguese, verb/ʃoˈka(ʁ)/
chocar is spelled C-H-O-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 20,810th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chocar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to brood (to keep an egg warm until it hatches)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ficar sobre o ovo, para protegê-lo até que o animal dentro dele nasça”.
What does chocar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to brood (to keep an egg warm until it hatches)
- 2
to hatch (to break open when a young animal emerges from it)
- 3
to hatch (to emerge from its egg)
- 4
to hatch (to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately)
- 5
slangto linger (to spend a long time not moving or doing anything)
- 6
informalto become foul due to heat
verb
- 1
to collide (to hit one another violently)
As aeronaves se chocaram logo depois de decolarem.
- 2
to collide with; to crash against (to hit violently)
Só um esquiador na história conseguiu descer esta ladeira sem se chocar em nenhuma árvore.
- 3
to shock (to evoke a very negative emotional response)
Os vídeos de decapitação do Estado Islâmico chocaram o mundo.
- 4
to clash (to not work well together)
Os imigrantes serão bem aceitos porque seus valores não se chocam com os nossos.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ficar sobre o ovo, para protegê-lo até que o animal dentro dele nasça 2. tomar alguma atitude agressiva para outras pessoas
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 chocar
- choco first-person present singular
- choquei first-person preterite singular
- chocado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- chocares infinitive second-person singular
- chocarmos first-person infinitive plural
- chocardes infinitive plural second-person
- chocarem infinitive plural third-person
- chocando gerund
- chocados masculine participle past
- chocada feminine participle past
- chocadas feminine participle past
- chocas indicative present second-person
- choca indicative present singular
- chocamos first-person indicative plural
- chocais indicative plural present
- chocam indicative plural present
- chocava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chocar?
- Brazil /ʃoˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ʃoˈka(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chocar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chocar in Portuguese?
chocar appears 2.2 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).