entravar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.tɾaˈva(ʁ)/
entravar is spelled E-N-T-R-A-V-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written Portuguese, the 215,563rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entravar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hinder (to delay or impede movement or advancement)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “embaraçar, obstruir, atravancar, tornar impraticável, impedir”.
What does entravar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hinder (to delay or impede movement or advancement)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. embaraçar, obstruir, atravancar, tornar impraticável, impedir
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 entravar
- entravo first-person present singular
- entravei first-person preterite singular
- entravado participle past
- entravares infinitive second-person singular
- entravarmos first-person infinitive plural
- entravardes infinitive plural second-person
- entravarem infinitive plural third-person
- entravando gerund
- entravados masculine participle past
- entravada feminine participle past
- entravadas feminine participle past
- entravas indicative present second-person
- entrava indicative present singular
- entravamos first-person indicative plural
- entravais indicative plural present
- entravam indicative plural present
- entravava first-person imperfect indicative
- entravavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce entravar?
- Brazil /ẽ.tɾaˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.tɾaˈva(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.tɾaˈva(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 entravar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is entravar in Portuguese?
entravar appears about once in every 60 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).