dançar
Portuguese, verb/dɐ̃ˈsa(ʁ)/
dançar is spelled D-A-N-Ç-A-R (6 letters) and appears 35 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,566th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dançar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to dance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mover-se ritmadamente ao som de uma música”.
What does dançar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dance
- 2
Brazilslangto fail, be unsuccessful
- 3
to oscillate (particularly fire)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mover-se ritmadamente ao som de uma música 2. oscilar: 3. saltar 4. dar-se mal, ter desvantagem em algo ou ser vítima de uma situação ruim
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 dançar
- danço first-person present singular
- dancei first-person preterite singular
- dançado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- dançares infinitive second-person singular
- dançarmos first-person infinitive plural
- dançardes infinitive plural second-person
- dançarem infinitive plural third-person
- dançando gerund
- dançados masculine participle past
- dançada feminine participle past
- dançadas feminine participle past
- danças indicative present second-person
- dança indicative present singular
- dançamos first-person indicative plural
- dançais indicative plural present
- dançam indicative plural present
- dançava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dançar?
- Brazil /dɐ̃ˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [dɐ̃ˈsa(h)]
- /dɐ̃ˈsa(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 dançar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dançar in Portuguese?
dançar appears 35 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).