ignorar
Portuguese, verb/i.ɡi.noˈɾa(ʁ)/
ignorar is spelled I-G-N-O-R-A-R (7 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,799th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ignorar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to ignore (to deliberately pay no attention to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “não saber, não conhecer”.
What does ignorar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ignore (to deliberately pay no attention to)
O professor ignorava as perguntas dos alunos.
- 2
obsoleteto ignore (not to know; to be ignorant about)
- 3
to lack an important quality
Essa resposta ignora o bom senso.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. não saber, não conhecer 2. desconsiderar propositalmente 3. não possuir determinado atributo
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 ignorar
- ignoro first-person present singular
- ignorei first-person preterite singular
- ignorado participle past
- ignorares infinitive second-person singular
- ignorarmos first-person infinitive plural
- ignorardes infinitive plural second-person
- ignorarem infinitive plural third-person
- ignorando gerund
- ignorados masculine participle past
- ignorada feminine participle past
- ignoradas feminine participle past
- ignoras indicative present second-person
- ignora indicative present singular
- ignoramos first-person indicative plural
- ignorais indicative plural present
- ignoram indicative plural present
- ignorava first-person imperfect indicative
- ignoravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ignorar?
- Brazil /i.ɡi.noˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [i.ɡi.noˈɾa(h)]
- Brazil /iɡ.noˈɾa(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 ignorar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ignorar in Portuguese?
ignorar appears 17 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).