ziguezaguear
Portuguese, verb/ˌzi.ɡi.za.ɡeˈa(ʁ)/
ziguezaguear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to zigzag (move in a zigzag manner)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer ziguezagues”.
What does ziguezaguear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to zigzag (move in a zigzag manner)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer ziguezagues
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 ziguezaguear
- ziguezagueio first-person present singular
- ziguezagueei first-person preterite singular
- ziguezagueado participle past
- ziguezagueares infinitive second-person singular
- ziguezaguearmos first-person infinitive plural
- ziguezagueardes infinitive plural second-person
- ziguezaguearem infinitive plural third-person
- ziguezagueando gerund
- ziguezagueados masculine participle past
- ziguezagueada feminine participle past
- ziguezagueadas feminine participle past
- ziguezagueias indicative present second-person
- ziguezagueia indicative present singular
- ziguezagueamos first-person indicative plural
- ziguezagueais indicative plural present
- ziguezagueiam indicative plural present
- ziguezagueava first-person imperfect indicative
- ziguezagueavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ziguezaguear?
- Brazil /ˌzi.ɡi.za.ɡeˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ˌzi.ɡi.za.ɡeˈa(h)]
- Brazil /ˌzi.ɡi.za.ɡiˈa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ziguezaguear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ziguezaguear in Portuguese?
ziguezaguear appears about once in every 44 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).