cavoucar

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.vo(w)ˈka(ʁ)/ [ka.vo(ʊ̯)ˈka(h)]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ka.vo(w)ˈka(ɾ)/ [ka.vo(ʊ̯)ˈka(ɾ)]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ka.vo(w)ˈka(ʁ)/ [ka.vo(ʊ̯)ˈka(χ)]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.vo(w)ˈka(ɻ)/ [ka.vo(ʊ̯)ˈka(ɻ)]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.vo(w)ˈkaɾ/
    • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.bowˈkaɾ/ [kɐ.βowˈkaɾ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.voˈkaɾ/

  • Hyphenation: ca‧vou‧car

Verb

cavoucar (first-person singular present cavouco, first-person singular preterite cavouquei, past participle cavoucado)

  1. (transitive or intransitive) to make a pit or hole [in]
  2. (transitive, by extension) to poke, to rummage, e.g. cavoucar o nariz (“to pick one's nose”)
  3. (intransitive) to dig like an animal (like a dog or armadillo)

Conjugation
    Conjugation of cavoucar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Singular Plural
First-person
(eu)		 Second-person
(tu)		 Third-person
(ele / ela / você)		 First-person
(nós)		 Second-person
(vós)		 Third-person
(eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal cavoucar
Personal cavoucar cavoucares cavoucar cavoucarmos cavoucardes cavoucarem
Gerund
cavoucando
Past participle
Masculine cavoucado cavoucados
Feminine cavoucada cavoucadas
Indicative
Present cavouco cavoucas cavouca cavoucamos cavoucais cavoucam
Imperfect cavoucava cavoucavas cavoucava cavoucávamos cavoucáveis cavoucavam
Preterite cavouquei cavoucaste cavoucou cavoucamos1, cavoucámos2 cavoucastes cavoucaram
Pluperfect cavoucara cavoucaras cavoucara cavoucáramos cavoucáreis cavoucaram
Future cavoucarei cavoucarás cavoucará cavoucaremos cavoucareis cavoucarão
Conditional cavoucaria cavoucarias cavoucaria cavoucaríamos cavoucaríeis cavoucariam
Subjunctive
Present cavouque cavouques cavouque cavouquemos cavouqueis cavouquem
Imperfect cavoucasse cavoucasses cavoucasse cavoucássemos cavoucásseis cavoucassem
Future cavoucar cavoucares cavoucar cavoucarmos cavoucardes cavoucarem
Imperative
Affirmative cavouca cavouque cavouquemos cavoucai cavouquem
Negative (não) não cavouques não cavouque não cavouquemos não cavouqueis não cavouquem

1Brazil.
2Portugal.

References
  • HOUAISS, A. and DE SALLES VILLAR, M. Minidicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa. Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, 2008.
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