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xonar

Portuguese, verb/ʃoˈna(ʁ)/

xonar is a Portuguese verb meaning “clipping of apaixonar (“to fall in love”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does xonar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    Brazilinformalclipping of apaixonar (“to fall in love”)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of xonar

  • xono first-person present singular
  • xonei first-person preterite singular
  • xonado participle past
  • xonares infinitive second-person singular
  • xonarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • xonardes infinitive plural second-person
  • xonarem infinitive plural third-person
  • xonando gerund
  • xonados masculine participle past
  • xonada feminine participle past
  • xonadas feminine participle past
  • xonas indicative present second-person
  • xona indicative present singular
  • xonamos first-person indicative plural
  • xonais indicative plural present
  • xonam indicative plural present
  • xonava first-person imperfect indicative
  • xonavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce xonar?

  • Brazil /ʃoˈna(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [ʃoˈna(h)]
  • /ʃoˈna(ɾ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is xonar in Portuguese?

xonar appears about once in every 91 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).