ovar
Portuguese, verb/oˈva(ʁ)/
ovar is spelled O-V-A-R (4 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 39,523rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ovar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to lay eggs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does ovar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lay eggs
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. município e freguesia portugueses do distrito de Aveiro
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 ovar
- ovo first-person present singular
- ovei first-person preterite singular
- ovado participle past
- ovares infinitive second-person singular
- ovarmos first-person infinitive plural
- ovardes infinitive plural second-person
- ovarem infinitive plural third-person
- ovando gerund
- ovados masculine participle past
- ovada feminine participle past
- ovadas feminine participle past
- ovas indicative present second-person
- ova indicative present singular
- ovamos first-person indicative plural
- ovais indicative plural present
- ovam indicative plural present
- ovava first-person imperfect indicative
- ovavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ovar?
- Brazil /oˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [oˈva(h)]
- /oˈva(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ovar in Portuguese?
ovar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).