rastejar
Portuguese, verb/ʁas.teˈʒa(ʁ)/
rastejar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to crawl, to creep (move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “seguir o rasto de”.
What does rastejar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crawl, to creep (move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground)
- 2
to track (follow the tracks of)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. seguir o rasto de 2. seguir a pista de 3. andar de rastos 4. estender-se pelo chão (planta)
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 rastejar
- rastejo first-person present singular
- rastejei first-person preterite singular
- rastejado participle past
- rastejares infinitive second-person singular
- rastejarmos first-person infinitive plural
- rastejardes infinitive plural second-person
- rastejarem infinitive plural third-person
- rastejando gerund
- rastejados masculine participle past
- rastejada feminine participle past
- rastejadas feminine participle past
- rastejas indicative present second-person
- rasteja indicative present singular
- rastejamos first-person indicative plural
- rastejais indicative plural present
- rastejam indicative plural present
- rastejava first-person imperfect indicative
- rastejavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rastejar?
- Brazil /ʁas.teˈʒa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [has.teˈʒa(h)]
- /ʁas.teˈʒa(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 rastejar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rastejar in Portuguese?
rastejar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).