negar
Portuguese, verb/neˈɡa(ʁ)/
negar is spelled N-E-G-A-R (5 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,212th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Negar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to disallow, to prohibit (to not allow)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “afirmar que algo não é verdadeiro ou que não existe”.
What does negar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disallow, to prohibit (to not allow)
- 2
to assert that something is not true
- 3
to refuse
- 4
to contest (call into question)
- 5
to refuse to let go of a card
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. afirmar que algo não é verdadeiro ou que não existe
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 negar
- nego first-person present singular
- neguei first-person preterite singular
- negado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- negares infinitive second-person singular
- negarmos first-person infinitive plural
- negardes infinitive plural second-person
- negarem infinitive plural third-person
- negando gerund
- negados masculine participle past
- negada feminine participle past
- negadas feminine participle past
- negas indicative present second-person
- nega indicative present singular
- negamos first-person indicative plural
- negais indicative plural present
- negam indicative plural present
- negava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce negar?
- Brazil /neˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [neˈɡa(h)]
- /neˈɡa(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 negar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is negar in Portuguese?
negar appears 20 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).