engavetar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.ɡa.veˈta(ʁ)/
engavetar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to store in a drawer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does engavetar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to store in a drawer
- 2
to shelve (a proposal, application, etc.)
- 3
to crash into another railway car (of a railway car, in an accident)
- 4
to collide together (of cars or other vehicles, in an accident)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of engavetar
- engaveto first-person present singular
- engavetei first-person preterite singular
- engavetado participle past
- engavetares infinitive second-person singular
- engavetarmos first-person infinitive plural
- engavetardes infinitive plural second-person
- engavetarem infinitive plural third-person
- engavetando gerund
- engavetados masculine participle past
- engavetada feminine participle past
- engavetadas feminine participle past
- engavetas indicative present second-person
- engaveta indicative present singular
- engavetamos first-person indicative plural
- engavetais indicative plural present
- engavetam indicative plural present
- engavetava first-person imperfect indicative
- engavetavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce engavetar?
- Brazil /ẽ.ɡa.veˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.ɡa.veˈta(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.ɡa.veˈta(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 engavetar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is engavetar in Portuguese?
engavetar appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).