tropicar
Portuguese, verb/tɾu.piˈka(ʁ)/
tropicar is spelled T-R-O-P-I-C-A-R (8 letters). Tropicar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to stumble, to trip repeatedly (usually said of a mule or a donkey)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tropeçar, bater com os pés em algo ao caminhar”.
What does tropicar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stumble, to trip repeatedly (usually said of a mule or a donkey)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. barulho que se faz com o calçado, socos, ao caminhar
verb: 1. tropeçar, bater com os pés em algo ao caminhar 2. fazer ruído ao caminhar
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 tropicar
- tropico first-person present singular
- tropiquei first-person preterite singular
- tropicado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- tropicares infinitive second-person singular
- tropicarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tropicardes infinitive plural second-person
- tropicarem infinitive plural third-person
- tropicando gerund
- tropicados masculine participle past
- tropicada feminine participle past
- tropicadas feminine participle past
- tropicas indicative present second-person
- tropica indicative present singular
- tropicamos first-person indicative plural
- tropicais indicative plural present
- tropicam indicative plural present
- tropicava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tropicar?
- Brazil /tɾu.piˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tɾu.piˈka(h)]
- Brazil /tɾo.piˈka(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.