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dragar

Portuguese, verb/dɾaˈɡa(ʁ)/

dragar is spelled D-R-A-G-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese, the 157,828th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dragar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to dredge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “usar uma draga para aprofundar o solo subaquático”.

What does dragar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to dredge

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. usar uma draga para aprofundar o solo subaquático

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 dragar

  • drago first-person present singular
  • draguei first-person preterite singular
  • dragado participle past
  • g-gu alternation
  • dragares infinitive second-person singular
  • dragarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • dragardes infinitive plural second-person
  • dragarem infinitive plural third-person
  • dragando gerund
  • dragados masculine participle past
  • dragada feminine participle past
  • dragadas feminine participle past
  • dragas indicative present second-person
  • draga indicative present singular
  • dragamos first-person indicative plural
  • dragais indicative plural present
  • dragam indicative plural present
  • dragava first-person imperfect indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce dragar?

  • Brazil /dɾaˈɡa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [dɾaˈɡa(h)]
  • /dɾaˈɡa(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 dragar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is dragar in Portuguese?

dragar appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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