sulcar
Portuguese, verb/suwˈka(ʁ)/
sulcar is spelled S-U-L-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written Portuguese, the 195,116th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sulcar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to furrow (cut a groove into)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer sulcos em”.
What does sulcar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to furrow (cut a groove into)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer sulcos em 2. navegar por 3. cortar
verb: 1. primeira pessoa do singular do futuro do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo sulcar 2. terceira pessoa do singular do futuro do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo sulcar 3. infinitivo pessoal da primeira pessoa do singular do verbo sulcar 4. infinitivo pessoal da terceira pessoa do singular do verbo sulcar
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 sulcar
- sulco first-person present singular
- sulquei first-person preterite singular
- sulcado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- sulcares infinitive second-person singular
- sulcarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sulcardes infinitive plural second-person
- sulcarem infinitive plural third-person
- sulcando gerund
- sulcados masculine participle past
- sulcada feminine participle past
- sulcadas feminine participle past
- sulcas indicative present second-person
- sulca indicative present singular
- sulcamos first-person indicative plural
- sulcais indicative plural present
- sulcam indicative plural present
- sulcava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sulcar?
- Brazil /suwˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [suʊ̯ˈka(h)]
- Portugal /suɫ.ˈkaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sulcar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sulcar in Portuguese?
sulcar appears about once in every 48 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).