trautear
Portuguese, verb/tɾaw.teˈa(ʁ)/
trautear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hum or sing in a low voice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cantarolar, comumente pronunciando somente silabas que imitam a canção”.
What does trautear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hum or sing in a low voice
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cantarolar, comumente pronunciando somente silabas que imitam a canção 2. fraudar, burlar, entrujar 3. censurar, repreender de modo severo, grave 4. aborrecer, importunar, apoquentar, maçar
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 trautear
- trauteio first-person present singular
- trauteei first-person preterite singular
- trauteado participle past
- trauteares infinitive second-person singular
- trautearmos first-person infinitive plural
- trauteardes infinitive plural second-person
- trautearem infinitive plural third-person
- trauteando gerund
- trauteados masculine participle past
- trauteada feminine participle past
- trauteadas feminine participle past
- trauteias indicative present second-person
- trauteia indicative present singular
- trauteamos first-person indicative plural
- trauteais indicative plural present
- trauteiam indicative plural present
- trauteava first-person imperfect indicative
- trauteavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trautear?
- Brazil /tɾaw.teˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tɾaʊ̯.teˈa(h)]
- /tɾaw.teˈa(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 trautear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trautear in Portuguese?
trautear appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).