vivar
Portuguese, verb/viˈva(ʁ)/
vivar is spelled V-I-V-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 89,875th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vivar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hooray (to shout an expression of excitement)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar vivas”.
What does vivar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hooray (to shout an expression of excitement)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar vivas
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 vivar
- vivo first-person present singular
- vivei first-person preterite singular
- vivado participle past
- vivares infinitive second-person singular
- vivarmos first-person infinitive plural
- vivardes infinitive plural second-person
- vivarem infinitive plural third-person
- vivando gerund
- vivados masculine participle past
- vivada feminine participle past
- vivadas feminine participle past
- vivas indicative present second-person
- viva indicative present singular
- vivamos first-person indicative plural
- vivais indicative plural present
- vivam indicative plural present
- vivava first-person imperfect indicative
- vivavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vivar?
- Brazil /viˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [viˈva(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 vivar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vivar in Portuguese?
vivar appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).