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sanar

Portuguese, verb/saˈna(ʁ)/

sanar is spelled S-A-N-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 38,177th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sanar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cure; to heal (to restore to health)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “curar, sarar”.

What does sanar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to cure; to heal (to restore to health)

    sanar dúvidas

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. curar, sarar 2. reparar, desfazer 3. resolver 4. tirar

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 sanar

  • sano first-person present singular
  • sanei first-person preterite singular
  • sanado participle past
  • sanares infinitive second-person singular
  • sanarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • sanardes infinitive plural second-person
  • sanarem infinitive plural third-person
  • sanando gerund
  • sanados masculine participle past
  • sanada feminine participle past
  • sanadas feminine participle past
  • sanas indicative present second-person
  • sana indicative present singular
  • sanamos first-person indicative plural
  • sanais indicative plural present
  • sanam indicative plural present
  • sanava first-person imperfect indicative
  • sanavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce sanar?

  • Brazil /saˈna(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [saˈna(h)]
  • /saˈna(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 sanar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is sanar in Portuguese?

sanar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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