rogar
Portuguese, verb/ʁoˈɡa(ʁ)/
rogar is spelled R-O-G-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 70,152nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rogar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to request” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “suplicar, fazer súplicas”.
What does rogar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to request
- 2
to beg
- 3
to pray
- 4
to curse
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. suplicar, fazer súplicas 2. contratar 3. pedir com insistência
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 rogar
- rogo first-person present singular
- roguei first-person preterite singular
- rogado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- rogares infinitive second-person singular
- rogarmos first-person infinitive plural
- rogardes infinitive plural second-person
- rogarem infinitive plural third-person
- rogando gerund
- rogados masculine participle past
- rogada feminine participle past
- rogadas feminine participle past
- rogas indicative present second-person
- roga indicative present singular
- rogamos first-person indicative plural
- rogais indicative plural present
- rogam indicative plural present
- rogava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rogar?
- Brazil /ʁoˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [hoˈɡa(h)]
- /ʁoˈɡa(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 rogar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rogar in Portuguese?
rogar appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).