acendera
Portuguese, verb
acendera is spelled A-C-E-N-D-E-R-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 93,598th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acendera is a Portuguese verb meaning “first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of acender” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, acenderá is a different word: “third-person singular future indicative of acender”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito mais-que-perfeito do indicativo do verbo acender”.
What does acendera mean in English?
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of acender
verb
- 1
third-person singular future indicative of acender
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito mais-que-perfeito do indicativo 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.
How common is acendera in Portuguese?
acendera appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).