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zunir

Portuguese, verb/zuˈni(ʁ)/

zunir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to buzz” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “produzir zunido”.

What does zunir mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to buzz

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. produzir zunido

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 zunir

  • zuno first-person present singular
  • zuni first-person preterite singular
  • zunido participle past
  • zunires infinitive second-person singular
  • zunirmos first-person infinitive plural
  • zunirdes infinitive plural second-person
  • zunirem infinitive plural third-person
  • zunindo gerund
  • zunidos masculine participle past
  • zunida feminine participle past
  • zunidas feminine participle past
  • zunes indicative present second-person
  • zune indicative present singular
  • zunimos first-person indicative plural
  • zunis indicative plural present
  • zunem indicative plural present
  • zunia first-person imperfect indicative
  • zunias imperfect indicative second-person

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

How do you pronounce zunir?

  • Brazil /zuˈni(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [zuˈni(h)]
  • /zuˈni(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 zunir

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is zunir in Portuguese?

zunir appears about once in every 38 million words in written Portuguese.

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