sovar
Portuguese, verb/soˈva(ʁ)/
sovar is spelled S-O-V-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese, the 164,273rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sovar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to knead dough” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “bater (a massa do pão, por exemplo)”.
What does sovar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to knead dough
- 2
to tread on grapes
- 3
to beat up (to attack someone)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. bater (a massa do pão, por exemplo) 2. dar uma sova, uma surra
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 sovar
- sovo first-person present singular
- sovei first-person preterite singular
- sovado participle past
- sovares infinitive second-person singular
- sovarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sovardes infinitive plural second-person
- sovarem infinitive plural third-person
- sovando gerund
- sovados masculine participle past
- sovada feminine participle past
- sovadas feminine participle past
- sovas indicative present second-person
- sova indicative present singular
- sovamos first-person indicative plural
- sovais indicative plural present
- sovam indicative plural present
- sovava first-person imperfect indicative
- sovavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sovar?
- Brazil /soˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [soˈva(h)]
- /soˈva(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 sovar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sovar in Portuguese?
sovar appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).