uivar

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• uviar, uivear, ouvar, oivar, ovar, oviar, ouviar, uvar, uver, uliar, ulear, ugar (dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?] (compare Galician ouvear), from Latin ululāre, from a reduplicated Proto-Indo-European imitative root. Doublet of ulular, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ujˈva(ʁ)/ [uɪ̯ˈva(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ujˈva(ʁ)/ [uɪ̯ˈva(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ujˈva(ɾ)/ [uɪ̯ˈva(ɾ)]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ujˈva(ʁ)/ [uɪ̯ˈva(χ)]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ujˈva(ɻ)/ [uɪ̯ˈva(ɻ)]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ujˈvaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ujˈvaɾ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ujˈbaɾ/ [ujˈβaɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ujˈva.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: ui‧var

Verb

uivar (first-person singular present uivo, first-person singular preterite uivei, past participle uivado)

1. (intransitive) to howl, to utter a loud and mournful sound as dogs and wolves often do

Conjugation

    Conjugation of uivar (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	uivar
Personal	uivar	uivares	uivar	uivarmos	uivardes	uivarem
Gerund
	uivando
Past participle
Masculine	uivado			uivados
Feminine	uivada			uivadas
Indicative
Present	uivo	uivas	uiva	uivamos	uivais	uivam
Imperfect	uivava	uivavas	uivava	uivávamos	uiváveis	uivavam
Preterite	uivei	uivaste	uivou	uivamos1, uivámos2	uivastes	uivaram
Pluperfect	uivara	uivaras	uivara	uiváramos	uiváreis	uivaram
Future	uivarei	uivarás	uivará	uivaremos	uivareis	uivarão
Conditional	uivaria	uivarias	uivaria	uivaríamos	uivaríeis	uivariam
Subjunctive
Present	uive	uives	uive	uivemos	uiveis	uivem
Imperfect	uivasse	uivasses	uivasse	uivássemos	uivásseis	uivassem
Future	uivar	uivares	uivar	uivarmos	uivardes	uivarem
Imperative
Affirmative		uiva	uive	uivemos	uivai	uivem
Negative (não)		não uives	não uive	não uivemos	não uiveis	não uivem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

See also

• latir
• rosnar
• uivo

Further reading

• “uivar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “uivar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026