faxinar
Portuguese, verb/fa.ʃiˈna(ʁ)/
faxinar is spelled F-A-X-I-N-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written Portuguese, the 151,527th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Faxinar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to bottom the house (to clean a house extremely thoroughly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does faxinar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bottom the house (to clean a house extremely thoroughly)
- 2
to set up fascines in a location
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of faxinar
- faxino first-person present singular
- faxinei first-person preterite singular
- faxinado participle past
- faxinares infinitive second-person singular
- faxinarmos first-person infinitive plural
- faxinardes infinitive plural second-person
- faxinarem infinitive plural third-person
- faxinando gerund
- faxinados masculine participle past
- faxinada feminine participle past
- faxinadas feminine participle past
- faxinas indicative present second-person
- faxina indicative present singular
- faxinamos first-person indicative plural
- faxinais indicative plural present
- faxinam indicative plural present
- faxinava first-person imperfect indicative
- faxinavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce faxinar?
- Brazil /fa.ʃiˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fa.ʃiˈna(h)]
- /fa.ʃiˈna(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is faxinar in Portuguese?
faxinar appears about once in every 27 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).