acartar
Portuguese, verb/a.kaʁˈta(ʁ)/
acartar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to transport something on the back or on the head” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “acarretar (‘transportar’)”.
What does acartar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to transport something on the back or on the head
Tivemos que acartar vários baldes de água do rio.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. acarretar (‘transportar’)
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of acartar
- acarto first-person present singular
- acartei first-person preterite singular
- acartado participle past
- acartares infinitive second-person singular
- acartarmos first-person infinitive plural
- acartardes infinitive plural second-person
- acartarem infinitive plural third-person
- acartando gerund
- acartados masculine participle past
- acartada feminine participle past
- acartadas feminine participle past
- acartas indicative present second-person
- acarta indicative present singular
- acartamos first-person indicative plural
- acartais indicative plural present
- acartam indicative plural present
- acartava first-person imperfect indicative
- acartavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acartar?
- Brazil /a.kaʁˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.kahˈta(h)]
- /a.kaɾˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is acartar in Portuguese?
acartar appears about once in every 85 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).