nadar
Portuguese, verb/naˈda(ʁ)/
nadar is spelled N-A-D-A-R (5 letters) and appears 7.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,452nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nadar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to swim (support oneself and move on the surface or within a liquid, through coordinated movements of arms and legs)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “deslocar-se na água ou sustentar-se sobre ela usando recursos do próprio corpo (pés, mãos, braços, pernas…”.
What does nadar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swim (support oneself and move on the surface or within a liquid, through coordinated movements of arms and legs)
- 2
to swim (practice a given swimming style)
- 3
to be immersed in liquid
- 4
to wear very loose clothing
- 5
to be exaggeratedly wide/loose
- 6
to travel (a given distance) moving on the surface or within a liquid
- 7
to possess in great abundance
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. deslocar-se na água ou sustentar-se sobre ela usando recursos do próprio corpo (pés, mãos, braços, pernas, nadadeiras, cauda etc.) 2. ter em abundância
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 nadar
- nado first-person present singular
- nadei first-person preterite singular
- nadado participle past
- nadares infinitive second-person singular
- nadarmos first-person infinitive plural
- nadardes infinitive plural second-person
- nadarem infinitive plural third-person
- nadando gerund
- nadados masculine participle past
- nadada feminine participle past
- nadadas feminine participle past
- nadas indicative present second-person
- nada indicative present singular
- nadamos first-person indicative plural
- nadais indicative plural present
- nadam indicative plural present
- nadava first-person imperfect indicative
- nadavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nadar?
- Brazil /naˈda(ʁ)/
- Brazil [naˈda(h)]
- /naˈda(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 nadar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nadar in Portuguese?
nadar appears 7.1 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).