vetar
Portuguese, verb/veˈta(ʁ)/
vetar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to veto (to use a veto against)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “impedir uma ação por veto”.
What does vetar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to veto (to use a veto against)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. impedir uma ação por veto
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 vetar
- veto first-person present singular
- vetei first-person preterite singular
- vetado participle past
- vetares infinitive second-person singular
- vetarmos first-person infinitive plural
- vetardes infinitive plural second-person
- vetarem infinitive plural third-person
- vetando gerund
- vetados masculine participle past
- vetada feminine participle past
- vetadas feminine participle past
- vetas indicative present second-person
- veta indicative present singular
- vetamos first-person indicative plural
- vetais indicative plural present
- vetam indicative plural present
- vetava first-person imperfect indicative
- vetavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vetar?
- Brazil /veˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [veˈta(h)]
- /veˈta(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 vetar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vetar in Portuguese?
vetar appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).