sedar
Portuguese, verb/seˈda(ʁ)/
sedar is spelled S-E-D-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 131,183rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sedar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sedate (to tranquilise by giving a sedative)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aplicar sedativo, dar sedativo a”.
What does sedar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sedate (to tranquilise by giving a sedative)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. aplicar sedativo, dar sedativo a 2. acalmar
verb: 1. o mesmo que assedar
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 sedar
- sedo first-person present singular
- sedei first-person preterite singular
- sedado participle past
- sedares infinitive second-person singular
- sedarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sedardes infinitive plural second-person
- sedarem infinitive plural third-person
- sedando gerund
- sedados masculine participle past
- sedada feminine participle past
- sedadas feminine participle past
- sedas indicative present second-person
- seda indicative present singular
- sedamos first-person indicative plural
- sedais indicative plural present
- sedam indicative plural present
- sedava first-person imperfect indicative
- sedavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sedar?
- Brazil /seˈda(ʁ)/
- Brazil [seˈda(h)]
- /seˈda(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 sedar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sedar in Portuguese?
sedar appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).