vegetar
Portuguese, verb/ve.ʒeˈta(ʁ)/
vegetar is spelled V-E-G-E-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 105,827th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vegetar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to vegetate (to grow or sprout)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “viver e desenvolver-se (a planta)”.
What does vegetar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to vegetate (to grow or sprout)
- 2
informalto vegetate (to live in a dull, inactive or unchallenging way)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. viver e desenvolver-se (a planta) 2. viver precariamente
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 vegetar
- vegeto first-person present singular
- vegetei first-person preterite singular
- vegetado participle past
- vegetares infinitive second-person singular
- vegetarmos first-person infinitive plural
- vegetardes infinitive plural second-person
- vegetarem infinitive plural third-person
- vegetando gerund
- vegetados masculine participle past
- vegetada feminine participle past
- vegetadas feminine participle past
- vegetas indicative present second-person
- vegeta indicative present singular
- vegetamos first-person indicative plural
- vegetais indicative plural present
- vegetam indicative plural present
- vegetava first-person imperfect indicative
- vegetavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vegetar?
- Brazil /ve.ʒeˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ve.ʒeˈta(h)]
- /ve.ʒeˈta(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 vegetar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vegetar in Portuguese?
vegetar appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).