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navegar

to navigate

verb nah-beh-GAHR Rare
Travel & Places Transportation

Origin: From Latin navigare, from navis (ship) + agere (to drive).

Also means

to sail

Usage Note

Navegar covers both sailing a vessel and browsing the internet (navegar por internet). The internet sense has become extremely common since the 1990s and is entirely standard. The agent noun is navegante (navigator/sailor) and the noun is navegación. Note that g before a is a hard sound; the spelling shifts to navegue in the subjunctive.

Examples

"Le encanta navegar por el Mediterráneo."

Natural Translation

He loves sailing the Mediterranean.

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