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espreguiçar

Portuguese, noun/is.pɾi.ɡiˈsa(ʁ)/

espreguiçar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a stretch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does espreguiçar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to stretch, particularly when waking up

noun

  1. 1

    masculinea stretch

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. tirar a preguiça a, despertar 2. estirar os membros, bocejando, por efeito do sono ou preguiça

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 espreguiçar

  • espreguiço first-person present singular
  • espreguicei first-person preterite singular
  • espreguiçado participle past
  • c-ç alternation
  • espreguiçares infinitive second-person singular
  • espreguiçarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • espreguiçardes infinitive plural second-person
  • espreguiçarem infinitive plural third-person
  • espreguiçando gerund
  • espreguiçados masculine participle past
  • espreguiçada feminine participle past
  • espreguiçadas feminine participle past
  • espreguiças indicative present second-person
  • espreguiça indicative present singular
  • espreguiçamos first-person indicative plural
  • espreguiçais indicative plural present
  • espreguiçam indicative plural present
  • espreguiçava first-person imperfect indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce espreguiçar?

  • Brazil /is.pɾi.ɡiˈsa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [is.pɾi.ɡiˈsa(h)]
  • Brazil /is.pɾe.ɡiˈsa(ʁ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is espreguiçar in Portuguese?

espreguiçar appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).