sugar
Portuguese, verb/suˈɡa(ʁ)/
sugar is spelled S-U-G-A-R (5 letters) and appears 5.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,403rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sugar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to suck” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “promover sucção”.
What does sugar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to suck
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineslangrelating to sugar dating; of a relationship, involving a partner who spends money on a often younger partner
relacionamento sugar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. promover sucção
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 sugar
- sugo first-person present singular
- suguei first-person preterite singular
- sugado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- sugares infinitive second-person singular
- sugarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sugardes infinitive plural second-person
- sugarem infinitive plural third-person
- sugando gerund
- sugados masculine participle past
- sugada feminine participle past
- sugadas feminine participle past
- sugas indicative present second-person
- suga indicative present singular
- sugamos first-person indicative plural
- sugais indicative plural present
- sugam indicative plural present
- sugava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sugar?
- Brazil /suˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [suˈɡa(h)]
- /suˈɡa(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 sugar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sugar in Portuguese?
sugar appears 5.5 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).