machucar
Portuguese, verb/ma.ʃuˈka(ʁ)/
machucar is spelled M-A-C-H-U-C-A-R (8 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,384th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Machucar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hurt (to cause physical pain)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ferir, causar ferimento, contusão ou lesão a alguém”.
What does machucar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hurt (to cause physical pain)
- 2
to hurt (to cause emotional pain)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ferir, causar ferimento, contusão ou lesão a alguém 2. magoar, fazer alguém sofrer fisicamente ou psicologicamente 3. deformar ou causar lesão a algo
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 machucar
- machuco first-person present singular
- machuquei first-person preterite singular
- machucado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- machucares infinitive second-person singular
- machucarmos first-person infinitive plural
- machucardes infinitive plural second-person
- machucarem infinitive plural third-person
- machucando gerund
- machucados masculine participle past
- machucada feminine participle past
- machucadas feminine participle past
- machucas indicative present second-person
- machuca indicative present singular
- machucamos first-person indicative plural
- machucais indicative plural present
- machucam indicative plural present
- machucava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce machucar?
- Brazil /ma.ʃuˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ma.ʃuˈka(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to machucar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is machucar in Portuguese?
machucar appears 10 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).