embargar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.baʁˈɡa(ʁ)/
embargar is spelled E-M-B-A-R-G-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese, the 122,069th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embargar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to embargo (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr embargo a”.
What does embargar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to embargo (all senses)
- 2
to impede, hinder
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr embargo a 2. impedir 3. dificultar 4. embaraçar
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 embargar
- embargo first-person present singular
- embarguei first-person preterite singular
- embargado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- embargares infinitive second-person singular
- embargarmos first-person infinitive plural
- embargardes infinitive plural second-person
- embargarem infinitive plural third-person
- embargando gerund
- embargados masculine participle past
- embargada feminine participle past
- embargadas feminine participle past
- embargas indicative present second-person
- embarga indicative present singular
- embargamos first-person indicative plural
- embargais indicative plural present
- embargam indicative plural present
- embargava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce embargar?
- Brazil /ẽ.baʁˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.baɦˈɡa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.baʁˈɡa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is embargar in Portuguese?
embargar appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).