legar
Portuguese, verb/leˈɡa(ʁ)/
legar is spelled L-E-G-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 62,709th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Legar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to bequeath, leave, will (make a bequest)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “deixar como legado”.
What does legar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bequeath, leave, will (make a bequest)
- 2
to legate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. deixar como legado
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 legar
- lego first-person present singular
- leguei first-person preterite singular
- legado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- legares infinitive second-person singular
- legarmos first-person infinitive plural
- legardes infinitive plural second-person
- legarem infinitive plural third-person
- legando gerund
- legados masculine participle past
- legada feminine participle past
- legadas feminine participle past
- legas indicative present second-person
- lega indicative present singular
- legamos first-person indicative plural
- legais indicative plural present
- legam indicative plural present
- legava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce legar?
- Brazil /leˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [leˈɡa(h)]
- /leˈɡa(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 legar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is legar in Portuguese?
legar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).