vadear
Portuguese, verb/va.deˈa(ʁ)/
vadear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to ford; to wade (to walk through a body of water)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “passar um vau”.
What does vadear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ford; to wade (to walk through a body of water)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. passar um vau 2. superar uma dificuldade
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 vadear
- vadeio first-person present singular
- vadeei first-person preterite singular
- vadeado participle past
- vadeares infinitive second-person singular
- vadearmos first-person infinitive plural
- vadeardes infinitive plural second-person
- vadearem infinitive plural third-person
- vadeando gerund
- vadeados masculine participle past
- vadeada feminine participle past
- vadeadas feminine participle past
- vadeias indicative present second-person
- vadeia indicative present singular
- vadeamos first-person indicative plural
- vadeais indicative plural present
- vadeiam indicative plural present
- vadeava first-person imperfect indicative
- vadeavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vadear?
- Brazil /va.deˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [va.deˈa(h)]
- Brazil /va.d͡ʒiˈa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vadear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vadear in Portuguese?
vadear appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).