cavoucar

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /kavoˈkaχ/, /kavoˈkaɾ/
  • Hyphenation: ca‧vou‧car

Verb

cavoucar (first-person singular present indicative cavouco, 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 the Portuguese -ar verb cavoucar
Notes:[edit]
  • This is a regular verb of the -ar group.
  • The last letter c is changed to qu, depending on the following vowel, resulting in these three possible sequences: -ca-, -que- and -co-.
  • Verbs with this conjugation include: brincar, buscar, pecar, trancar.
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 cavoucamos
cavoucámos		 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) - cavouques cavouque cavouquemos cavouqueis cavouquem

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