vadiar
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /va.d͡ʒiˈa(ʁ)/ [va.d͡ʒɪˈa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /va.d͡ʒiˈa(ɾ)/ [va.d͡ʒɪˈa(ɾ)]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /va.d͡ʒiˈa(ʁ)/ [va.d͡ʒɪˈa(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /va.d͡ʒiˈa(ɻ)/ [va.d͡ʒɪˈa(ɻ)]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /vaˈdjaɾ/ [vaˈðjaɾ]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /baˈdjaɾ/ [baˈðjaɾ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /vaˈdja.ɾi/ [vaˈðja.ɾi]
- Homophone: vadear (Portugal, some Brazilian pronunciations)
- Hyphenation: va‧di‧ar
Verb
vadiar (first-person singular present vadio, first-person singular preterite vadiei, past participle vadiado)
- (intransitive) to wander (to move without purpose or specified destination)
- Synonym: vagar
- (intransitive) to loaf (to do nothing)
- 2011 December 3, Chorão, Thiago Castanho, “Céu Azul” (1:19 from the start), in Música Popular Caiçara, performed by Charlie Brown Jr., São Paulo: Radar Records:
- E viver, e cantar, não importa qual seja o dia / Vamos viver, vadiar, o que importa é nossa alegria
- And live, and sing, it doesn't matter what day it is. Let's live, loaf, what matters is our joy.
Conjugation
Conjugation of vadiar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.