cavoucar

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• cavocar

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.vo(w)ˈka(ʁ)/ [ka.vo(ʊ̯)ˈka(h)]

• (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/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.vo(w)ˈkaɾ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.bowˈkaɾ/ [kɐ.βowˈkaɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.voˈka.ɾi/

• 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

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

References

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