coisar
Portuguese, verb/kojˈza(ʁ)/
coisar is spelled C-O-I-S-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese, the 112,486th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coisar is a Portuguese verb meaning “A placeholder verb used when the speaker does not remember a specific verb, and whose meaning can be inferred through context” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “imaginar, cousar”.
What does coisar mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialA placeholder verb used when the speaker does not remember a specific verb, and whose meaning can be inferred through context.
Você já coisou aquele negócio no seu computador que não estava funcionando?
- 2
colloquialto boink, to bonk (have sexual intercourse)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. imaginar, cousar 2. fazer alguma coisa (verbo universal usado para substituir qualquer outro verbo que não seja lembrado no momento) 3. fazer sexo
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 coisar
- coiso first-person present singular
- coisei first-person preterite singular
- coisado participle past
- coisares infinitive second-person singular
- coisarmos first-person infinitive plural
- coisardes infinitive plural second-person
- coisarem infinitive plural third-person
- coisando gerund
- coisados masculine participle past
- coisada feminine participle past
- coisadas feminine participle past
- coisas indicative present second-person
- coisa indicative present singular
- coisamos first-person indicative plural
- coisais indicative plural present
- coisam indicative plural present
- coisava first-person imperfect indicative
- coisavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce coisar?
- Brazil /kojˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [koɪ̯ˈza(h)]
- /kojˈza(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 coisar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is coisar in Portuguese?
coisar appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).