acender
Portuguese, verb/a.sẽˈde(ʁ)/
acender is spelled A-C-E-N-D-E-R (7 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,843rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acender is a Portuguese verb meaning “to light (to set fire to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr fogo a”.
What does acender mean in English?
verb
- 1
to light (to set fire to)
- 2
to light up; to catch fire
- 3
to turn on (to activate a source of light)
- 4
to be turned on
- 5
to give birth to (to create or start something that can’t be stopped)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr fogo a 2. fazer arder 3. ligar
verb: 1. primeira pessoa do singular do futuro do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo acender 2. terceira pessoa do singular do futuro do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo acender 3. infinitivo pessoal da primeira pessoa do singular do verbo acender 4. infinitivo pessoal da terceira pessoa do singular do verbo acender
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 acender
- acendo first-person present singular
- acendi first-person preterite singular
- acendido participle past
- aceso participle past short-form
- acenderes infinitive second-person singular
- acendermos first-person infinitive plural
- acenderdes infinitive plural second-person
- acenderem infinitive plural third-person
- acendendo gerund
- acesos masculine participle past
- acesa feminine participle past
- acesas feminine participle past
- acendidos long-form masculine participle
- acendida feminine long-form participle
- acendidas feminine long-form participle
- acendes indicative present second-person
- acende indicative present singular
- acendemos first-person indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acender?
- Brazil /a.sẽˈde(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.sẽˈde(h)]
- /a.sẽˈde(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acender
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acender in Portuguese?
acender appears 5.9 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).