tava

Portuguese, verb/ˈta.vɐ/

tava is a Portuguese verb meaning “eye dialect spelling of estava” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of tar.

What does tava mean in English?

verb

1
eye dialect spelling of estava

verb

1
first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of tar

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

How do you pronounce tava?

Brazil /ˈta.vɐ/
Portugal /ˈta.vɐ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is tava in Portuguese?

tava appears 15 times per million words in written Portuguese.

tava0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Portuguesemore common

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