educar
Portuguese, verb/e.duˈka(ʁ)/
educar is spelled E-D-U-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,139th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Educar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to educate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ministrar educação a”.
What does educar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to educate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ministrar educação a 2. instruir 3. desenvolver as faculdades de
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 educar
- educo first-person present singular
- eduquei first-person preterite singular
- educado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- educares infinitive second-person singular
- educarmos first-person infinitive plural
- educardes infinitive plural second-person
- educarem infinitive plural third-person
- educando gerund
- educados masculine participle past
- educada feminine participle past
- educadas feminine participle past
- educas indicative present second-person
- educa indicative present singular
- educamos first-person indicative plural
- educais indicative plural present
- educam indicative plural present
- educava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce educar?
- Brazil /e.duˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [e.duˈka(h)]
- /e.duˈka(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 educar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is educar in Portuguese?
educar appears 6.5 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).