colocar
Portuguese, verb/ko.loˈka(ʁ)/
colocar is spelled C-O-L-O-C-A-R (7 letters) and appears 141 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 699th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colocar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to place; to put” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr num lugar”.
What does colocar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to place; to put
Coloca as chaves em cima da mesa, faz favor.
- 2
to put
Não reclame, pois foi você mesmo que se colocou nessa situação.
- 3
to hire; to employ
- 4
to invest (to commit capital in the hope of financial return)
- 5
to place (to earn a given spot in a competition’s result)
Ele se colocou em último lugar na maratona.
- 6
to put forth
A entrevistadora colocou uma pergunta interessante.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr num lugar 2. dispor; situar 3. pôr um capital a render 4. dar emprego a
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 colocar
- coloco first-person present singular
- coloquei first-person preterite singular
- colocado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- colocares infinitive second-person singular
- colocarmos first-person infinitive plural
- colocardes infinitive plural second-person
- colocarem infinitive plural third-person
- colocando gerund
- colocados masculine participle past
- colocada feminine participle past
- colocadas feminine participle past
- colocas indicative present second-person
- coloca indicative present singular
- colocamos first-person indicative plural
- colocais indicative plural present
- colocam indicative plural present
- colocava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce colocar?
- Brazil /ko.loˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ko.loˈka(h)]
- /ko.loˈka(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 colocar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is colocar in Portuguese?
colocar appears 141 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).