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nanar

Portuguese, verb/naˈna(ʁ)/

nanar is spelled N-A-N-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 105,827th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nanar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sleep” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dormir (criança)”.

What does nanar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to sleep

    É hora de nanar!

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. dormir (criança)

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 nanar

  • nano first-person present singular
  • nanei first-person preterite singular
  • nanado participle past
  • nanares infinitive second-person singular
  • nanarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • nanardes infinitive plural second-person
  • nanarem infinitive plural third-person
  • nanando gerund
  • nanados masculine participle past
  • nanada feminine participle past
  • nanadas feminine participle past
  • nanas indicative present second-person
  • nana indicative present singular
  • nanamos first-person indicative plural
  • nanais indicative plural present
  • nanam indicative plural present
  • nanava first-person imperfect indicative
  • nanavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce nanar?

  • Brazil /naˈna(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [naˈna(h)]
  • /naˈna(ɾ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is nanar in Portuguese?

nanar appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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