tunar
Portuguese, verb/tuˈna(ʁ)/
tunar is spelled T-U-N-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written Portuguese, the 151,527th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tunar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to be idle or lazy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “andar pela vida na ociosidade, sem ocupação, na diversão”.
What does tunar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be idle or lazy
verb
- 1
to tune an automobile; to engage in car tuning
- 2
slangto improve, to better
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. andar pela vida na ociosidade, sem ocupação, na diversão
verb: 1. modificar de modo melhorativo um automóvel substituindo suas partes ou acrescendo-lhe outras
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 tunar
- tuno first-person present singular
- tunei first-person preterite singular
- tunado participle past
- tunares infinitive second-person singular
- tunarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tunardes infinitive plural second-person
- tunarem infinitive plural third-person
- tunando gerund
- tunados masculine participle past
- tunada feminine participle past
- tunadas feminine participle past
- tunas indicative present second-person
- tuna indicative present singular
- tunamos first-person indicative plural
- tunais indicative plural present
- tunam indicative plural present
- tunava first-person imperfect indicative
- tunavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tunar?
- Brazil /tuˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tuˈna(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tunar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tunar in Portuguese?
tunar appears about once in every 27 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).