vogar
Portuguese, verb/voˈɡa(ʁ)/
vogar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sail, to row (of a person or people: to move over a body of water by means of sails or oars)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “navegar”.
What does vogar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sail, to row (of a person or people: to move over a body of water by means of sails or oars)
- 2
to sail (of a watercraft: to move over a body of water)
- 3
to navigate, to sail (of a person: to travel somewhere by means of sailing)
- 4
to drift; to float (to move slowly)
- 5
to spread, to become widely known (of information)
- 6
to be in vogue
- 7
to have validity, to prevail
- 8
to be in control, to have influence
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. navegar 2. valer
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 vogar
- vogo first-person present singular
- voguei first-person preterite singular
- vogado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- vogares infinitive second-person singular
- vogarmos first-person infinitive plural
- vogardes infinitive plural second-person
- vogarem infinitive plural third-person
- vogando gerund
- vogados masculine participle past
- vogada feminine participle past
- vogadas feminine participle past
- vogas indicative present second-person
- voga indicative present singular
- vogamos first-person indicative plural
- vogais indicative plural present
- vogam indicative plural present
- vogava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vogar?
- Brazil /voˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [voˈɡa(h)]
- /voˈɡa(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 vogar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vogar in Portuguese?
vogar appears about once in every 66 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).