tocar
Portuguese, verb/toˈka(ʁ)/
tocar is spelled T-O-C-A-R (5 letters) and appears 59 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,644th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tocar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to touch, to finger, to feel (tactually)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “encostar uma parte do corpo em”.
What does tocar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to touch, to finger, to feel (tactually)
Toquei levemente (em) seu braço
- 2
to start addressing
Já que você tocou nessa questão, vamos continuar
- 3
to play (a musical instrument)
Ela toca piano muito bem
- 4
to sound, jingle, to honk, to ring (a bell, alarm, horn or similar object)
Toque a campainha!
- 5
Brazilinformalto kick out, to expulse
Alguém precisa tocá-lo daqui
- 6
Brazilinformalto become aware; to realize or perceive
Só me toquei depois.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. encostar uma parte do corpo em 2. produzir música com instrumento 3. executar música 4. causar emoção, emocionar
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 tocar
- toco first-person present singular
- toquei first-person preterite singular
- tocado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- tocares infinitive second-person singular
- tocarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tocardes infinitive plural second-person
- tocarem infinitive plural third-person
- tocando gerund
- tocados masculine participle past
- tocada feminine participle past
- tocadas feminine participle past
- tocas indicative present second-person
- toca indicative present singular
- tocamos first-person indicative plural
- tocais indicative plural present
- tocam indicative plural present
- tocava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tocar?
- Brazil /toˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [toˈka(h)]
- /toˈka(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 tocar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tocar in Portuguese?
tocar appears 59 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).