exagerar
Portuguese, verb/e.za.ʒeˈɾa(ʁ)/
exagerar is spelled E-X-A-G-E-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 21,396th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exagerar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to exaggerate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “falar com excesso”.
What does exagerar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to exaggerate
- 2
to overstate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. falar com excesso 2. apresentar algo como sendo maior ou menor, pior ou melhor do que é 3. ampliar
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 exagerar
- exagero first-person present singular
- exagerei first-person preterite singular
- exagerado participle past
- exagerares infinitive second-person singular
- exagerarmos first-person infinitive plural
- exagerardes infinitive plural second-person
- exagerarem infinitive plural third-person
- exagerando gerund
- exagerados masculine participle past
- exagerada feminine participle past
- exageradas feminine participle past
- exageras indicative present second-person
- exagera indicative present singular
- exageramos first-person indicative plural
- exagerais indicative plural present
- exageram indicative plural present
- exagerava first-person imperfect indicative
- exageravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exagerar?
- Brazil /e.za.ʒeˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [e.za.ʒeˈɾa(h)]
- Brazil /i.za.ʒeˈɾa(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 exagerar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exagerar in Portuguese?
exagerar appears 2.1 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).