locar
Portuguese, verb/loˈka(ʁ)/
locar is spelled L-O-C-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 86,274th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Locar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to lease, hire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar de aluguel ou de arrendamento”.
What does locar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lease, hire
- 2
obsoleteto locate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar de aluguel ou de arrendamento 2. meter em loca
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 locar
- loco first-person present singular
- loquei first-person preterite singular
- locado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- locares infinitive second-person singular
- locarmos first-person infinitive plural
- locardes infinitive plural second-person
- locarem infinitive plural third-person
- locando gerund
- locados masculine participle past
- locada feminine participle past
- locadas feminine participle past
- locas indicative present second-person
- loca indicative present singular
- locamos first-person indicative plural
- locais indicative plural present
- locam indicative plural present
- locava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce locar?
- Brazil /loˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [loˈka(h)]
- /loˈka(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is locar in Portuguese?
locar appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).