divagar
Portuguese, verb/d͡ʒi.vaˈɡa(ʁ)/
divagar is spelled D-I-V-A-G-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 60,841st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Divagar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to digress” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “voar nos pensamentos, devanear, sonhar”.
What does divagar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to digress
- 2
to wander, ramble
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. voar nos pensamentos, devanear, sonhar 2. caminhar sem rumo, vagar 3. desviar do assunto principal, fazer digressões 4. dizer coisas sem sentido, desvairar
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 divagar
- divago first-person present singular
- divaguei first-person preterite singular
- divagado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- divagares infinitive second-person singular
- divagarmos first-person infinitive plural
- divagardes infinitive plural second-person
- divagarem infinitive plural third-person
- divagando gerund
- divagados masculine participle past
- divagada feminine participle past
- divagadas feminine participle past
- divagas indicative present second-person
- divaga indicative present singular
- divagamos first-person indicative plural
- divagais indicative plural present
- divagam indicative plural present
- divagava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce divagar?
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.vaˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [d͡ʒi.vaˈɡa(h)]
- /d͡ʒi.vaˈɡa(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 divagar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is divagar in Portuguese?
divagar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).