sacolejar
Portuguese, verb/sa.ko.leˈʒa(ʁ)/
sacolejar is spelled S-A-C-O-L-E-J-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written Portuguese, the 264,336th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sacolejar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to shake, agitate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sacudir, chacoalhar, agitar, balançar”.
What does sacolejar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shake, agitate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sacudir, chacoalhar, agitar, balançar 2. dançar, rebolar
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 sacolejar
- sacolejo first-person present singular
- sacolejei first-person preterite singular
- sacolejado participle past
- sacolejares infinitive second-person singular
- sacolejarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sacolejardes infinitive plural second-person
- sacolejarem infinitive plural third-person
- sacolejando gerund
- sacolejados masculine participle past
- sacolejada feminine participle past
- sacolejadas feminine participle past
- sacolejas indicative present second-person
- sacoleja indicative present singular
- sacolejamos first-person indicative plural
- sacolejais indicative plural present
- sacolejam indicative plural present
- sacolejava first-person imperfect indicative
- sacolejavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sacolejar?
- Brazil /sa.ko.leˈʒa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [sa.ko.leˈʒa(h)]
- /sa.ko.leˈʒa(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 sacolejar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sacolejar in Portuguese?
sacolejar appears about once in every 95 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).