jazer
Portuguese, verb/ʒaˈze(ʁ)/
jazer is spelled J-A-Z-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese, the 139,586th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jazer is a Portuguese verb meaning “to lie, to sit (be situated)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estar deitado imóvel, morto ou como se fosse morto”.
What does jazer mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto lie, to sit (be situated)
- 2
archaicto lay, to lie down
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. estar deitado imóvel, morto ou como se fosse morto 2. estar enterrado 3. estar colocado no chão
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 jazer
- jazo first-person present singular
- jazi first-person preterite singular
- jazido participle past
- jazeres infinitive second-person singular
- jazermos first-person infinitive plural
- jazerdes infinitive plural second-person
- jazerem infinitive plural third-person
- jazendo gerund
- jazidos masculine participle past
- jazida feminine participle past
- jazidas feminine participle past
- jazes indicative present second-person
- jaz indicative present singular
- jazemos first-person indicative plural
- jazeis indicative plural present
- jazem indicative plural present
- jazia first-person imperfect indicative
- jazias imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce jazer?
- Brazil /ʒaˈze(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ʒaˈze(h)]
- /ʒaˈze(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 jazer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is jazer in Portuguese?
jazer appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).