papaguear
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From papagaio (“parrot”) + -ear.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧gue‧ar
Verb
[edit]papaguear (first-person singular present papagueio, first-person singular preterite papagueei, past participle papagueado)
- (transitive) to parrot (to repeat exactly without showing understanding)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of papaguear (e becomes ei when stressed) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
[edit]- “papaguear”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024