caçar
Portuguese, verb/kaˈsa(ʁ)/
caçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hunt (chase down prey)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “perseguir uma presa e, usualmente, matá-la”.
What does caçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hunt (chase down prey)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. perseguir uma presa e, usualmente, matá-la 2. procurar por algo
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 caçar
- caço first-person present singular
- cacei first-person preterite singular
- caçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- caçares infinitive second-person singular
- caçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- caçardes infinitive plural second-person
- caçarem infinitive plural third-person
- caçando gerund
- caçados masculine participle past
- caçada feminine participle past
- caçadas feminine participle past
- caças indicative present second-person
- caça indicative present singular
- caçamos first-person indicative plural
- caçais indicative plural present
- caçam indicative plural present
- caçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce caçar?
- Brazil /kaˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kaˈsa(h)]
- /kaˈsa(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 caçar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is caçar in Portuguese?
caçar appears 10 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).