noivar
Portuguese, verb/nojˈva(ʁ)/
noivar is spelled N-O-I-V-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 79,437th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Noivar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to get engaged” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “celebrar noivado”.
What does noivar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to get engaged
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. celebrar noivado 2. cortejar ou galantear a pessoa que se vai desposar
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 noivar
- noivo first-person present singular
- noivei first-person preterite singular
- noivado participle past
- noivares infinitive second-person singular
- noivarmos first-person infinitive plural
- noivardes infinitive plural second-person
- noivarem infinitive plural third-person
- noivando gerund
- noivados masculine participle past
- noivada feminine participle past
- noivadas feminine participle past
- noivas indicative present second-person
- noiva indicative present singular
- noivamos first-person indicative plural
- noivais indicative plural present
- noivam indicative plural present
- noivava first-person imperfect indicative
- noivavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce noivar?
- Brazil /nojˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [noɪ̯ˈva(h)]
- /nojˈva(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is noivar in Portuguese?
noivar appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).