empacar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.paˈka(ʁ)/
empacar is spelled E-M-P-A-C-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese, the 135,347th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empacar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to jib (to stop and refuse to proceed)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ficar parado (animal), não andando mesmo cutucado”.
What does empacar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to jib (to stop and refuse to proceed)
- 2
to stop growing or improving
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ficar parado (animal), não andando mesmo cutucado 2. não ir em frente 3. embrulhar, empacotar
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 empacar
- empaco first-person present singular
- empaquei first-person preterite singular
- empacado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- empacares infinitive second-person singular
- empacarmos first-person infinitive plural
- empacardes infinitive plural second-person
- empacarem infinitive plural third-person
- empacando gerund
- empacados masculine participle past
- empacada feminine participle past
- empacadas feminine participle past
- empacas indicative present second-person
- empaca indicative present singular
- empacamos first-person indicative plural
- empacais indicative plural present
- empacam indicative plural present
- empacava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empacar?
- Brazil /ẽ.paˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.paˈka(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.paˈka(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to empacar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empacar in Portuguese?
empacar appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).