reprovar
Portuguese, verb/ʁe.pɾoˈva(ʁ)/
reprovar is spelled R-E-P-R-O-V-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 41,886th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Reprovar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to disapprove, condemn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desaprovar”.
What does reprovar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disapprove, condemn
- 2
to flunk (fail an exam or a class)
- 3
informalto flunk (to make someone fail an exam or class)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. desaprovar 2. rejeitar 3. condenar 4. chumbar (entre estudantes)
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 reprovar
- reprovo first-person present singular
- reprovei first-person preterite singular
- reprovado participle past
- reprovares infinitive second-person singular
- reprovarmos first-person infinitive plural
- reprovardes infinitive plural second-person
- reprovarem infinitive plural third-person
- reprovando gerund
- reprovados masculine participle past
- reprovada feminine participle past
- reprovadas feminine participle past
- reprovas indicative present second-person
- reprova indicative present singular
- reprovamos first-person indicative plural
- reprovais indicative plural present
- reprovam indicative plural present
- reprovava first-person imperfect indicative
- reprovavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce reprovar?
- Brazil /ʁe.pɾoˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [he.pɾoˈva(h)]
- /ʁe.pɾoˈva(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 reprovar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is reprovar in Portuguese?
reprovar 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).