imaginar
Portuguese, verb/i.ma.ʒiˈna(ʁ)/
imaginar is spelled I-M-A-G-I-N-A-R (8 letters) and appears 43 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,182nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imaginar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to imagine (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “criar na imaginação, criar imagem na mente”.
What does imaginar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to imagine (all senses)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. criar na imaginação, criar imagem na mente 2. fantasiar 3. julgar(-se)
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 imaginar
- imagino first-person present singular
- imaginei first-person preterite singular
- imaginado participle past
- imaginares infinitive second-person singular
- imaginarmos first-person infinitive plural
- imaginardes infinitive plural second-person
- imaginarem infinitive plural third-person
- imaginando gerund
- imaginados masculine participle past
- imaginada feminine participle past
- imaginadas feminine participle past
- imaginas indicative present second-person
- imagina indicative present singular
- imaginamos first-person indicative plural
- imaginais indicative plural present
- imaginam indicative plural present
- imaginava first-person imperfect indicative
- imaginavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce imaginar?
- Brazil /i.ma.ʒiˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [i.ma.ʒiˈna(h)]
- /i.ma.ʒiˈna(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to imaginar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is imaginar in Portuguese?
imaginar appears 43 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).