tocaiar
Portuguese, verb/to.kajˈa(ʁ)/
tocaiar is spelled T-O-C-A-I-A-R (7 letters). Tocaiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hide for an ambush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “preparar uma tocaia para alguém”.
What does tocaiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hide for an ambush
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. preparar uma tocaia para alguém 2. espreitar, vigiar
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 tocaiar
- tocaio first-person present singular
- tocaiei first-person preterite singular
- tocaiado participle past
- tocaiares infinitive second-person singular
- tocaiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tocaiardes infinitive plural second-person
- tocaiarem infinitive plural third-person
- tocaiando gerund
- tocaiados masculine participle past
- tocaiada feminine participle past
- tocaiadas feminine participle past
- tocaias indicative present second-person
- tocaia indicative present singular
- tocaiamos first-person indicative plural
- tocaiais indicative plural present
- tocaiam indicative plural present
- tocaiava first-person imperfect indicative
- tocaiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tocaiar?
- Brazil /to.kajˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [to.kaɪ̯ˈa(h)]
- /to.kajˈa(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 tocaiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.