acenderam
Portuguese, verb
acenderam is spelled A-C-E-N-D-E-R-A-M (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 48,837th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acenderam is a Portuguese verb meaning “third-person plural preterite/pluperfect indicative of acender” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito mais-que-perfeito do indicativo do verbo ascender”.
What does acenderam mean in English?
verb
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third-person plural preterite/pluperfect 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 plural do pretérito mais-que-perfeito do indicativo do verbo ascender
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 acenderam in Portuguese?
acenderam appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).