provocar
Portuguese, verb/pɾo.voˈka(ʁ)/
provocar is spelled P-R-O-V-O-C-A-R (8 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,799th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Provocar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to provoke (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desafiar”.
What does provocar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to provoke (all senses)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. desafiar 2. insultar, afrontar, injuriar 3. causar (uma consequência)
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 provocar
- provoco first-person present singular
- provoquei first-person preterite singular
- provocado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- provocares infinitive second-person singular
- provocarmos first-person infinitive plural
- provocardes infinitive plural second-person
- provocarem infinitive plural third-person
- provocando gerund
- provocados masculine participle past
- provocada feminine participle past
- provocadas feminine participle past
- provocas indicative present second-person
- provoca indicative present singular
- provocamos first-person indicative plural
- provocais indicative plural present
- provocam indicative plural present
- provocava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce provocar?
- Brazil /pɾo.voˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pɾo.voˈka(h)]
- /pɾo.voˈka(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 provocar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is provocar in Portuguese?
provocar appears 17 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).