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gravar

Portuguese, verb/ɡɾaˈva(ʁ)/

gravar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to encumber” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “esculpir, entalhar”.

What does gravar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to encumber

verb

  1. 1

    to engrave; to carve

  2. 2

    to record (to make an audio or video recording of)

  3. 3

    to save; to write to memory

  4. 4

    to memorise; to commit to memory

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. esculpir, entalhar 2. memorizar 3. imortalizar, perpetuar: 4. registar em suporte magnético sons, imagens ou dados informáticos

verb: 1. primeira pessoa do singular do futuro do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo gravar 2. terceira pessoa do singular do futuro do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo gravar 3. infinitivo pessoal da primeira pessoa do singular do verbo gravar 4. infinitivo pessoal da terceira pessoa do singular do verbo gravar

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 gravar

  • gravo first-person present singular
  • gravei first-person preterite singular
  • gravado participle past
  • gravares infinitive second-person singular
  • gravarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • gravardes infinitive plural second-person
  • gravarem infinitive plural third-person
  • gravando gerund
  • gravados masculine participle past
  • gravada feminine participle past
  • gravadas feminine participle past
  • gravas indicative present second-person
  • grava indicative present singular
  • gravamos first-person indicative plural
  • gravais indicative plural present
  • gravam indicative plural present
  • gravava first-person imperfect indicative
  • gravavas imperfect indicative second-person

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

How do you pronounce gravar?

  • Brazil /ɡɾaˈva(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [ɡɾaˈva(h)]
  • /ɡɾaˈva(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 gravar

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

How common is gravar in Portuguese?

gravar appears 25 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).