ondular
Portuguese, verb/õ.duˈla(ʁ)/
ondular is spelled O-N-D-U-L-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 93,598th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ondular is a Portuguese verb meaning “to undulate, ripple, wave” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “formar pequenas ondas”.
What does ondular mean in English?
verb
- 1
to undulate, ripple, wave
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. formar pequenas ondas 2. dar o movimento da ondulação a
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 ondular
- ondulo first-person present singular
- ondulei first-person preterite singular
- ondulado participle past
- ondulares infinitive second-person singular
- ondularmos first-person infinitive plural
- ondulardes infinitive plural second-person
- ondularem infinitive plural third-person
- ondulando gerund
- ondulados masculine participle past
- ondulada feminine participle past
- onduladas feminine participle past
- ondulas indicative present second-person
- ondula indicative present singular
- ondulamos first-person indicative plural
- ondulais indicative plural present
- ondulam indicative plural present
- ondulava first-person imperfect indicative
- ondulavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ondular?
- Brazil /õ.duˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [õ.duˈla(h)]
- /õ.duˈla(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 ondular
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ondular in Portuguese?
ondular appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).