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fonar

Portuguese, verb/foˈna(ʁ)/

fonar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to produce speech sounds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does fonar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to produce speech sounds

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

Forms of fonar

  • fono first-person present singular
  • fonei first-person preterite singular
  • fonado participle past
  • fonares infinitive second-person singular
  • fonarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • fonardes infinitive plural second-person
  • fonarem infinitive plural third-person
  • fonando gerund
  • fonados masculine participle past
  • fonada feminine participle past
  • fonadas feminine participle past
  • fonas indicative present second-person
  • fona indicative present singular
  • fonamos first-person indicative plural
  • fonais indicative plural present
  • fonam indicative plural present
  • fonava first-person imperfect indicative
  • fonavas imperfect indicative second-person

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

How do you pronounce fonar?

  • Brazil /foˈna(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [foˈna(h)]
  • /foˈna(ɾ)/

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