acentuar
Portuguese, verb/a.sẽ.tuˈa(ʁ)/
acentuar is spelled A-C-E-N-T-U-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 47,790th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acentuar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to accentuate; to stress (to pronounce with an accent or vocal stress)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “usar acentos em”.
What does acentuar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to accentuate; to stress (to pronounce with an accent or vocal stress)
- 2
to accentuate (to bring out distinctly; to emphasize)
- 3
to accentuate (to mark with a written accent)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. usar acentos em 2. pronunciar com clareza ou com intensidade. 3. salientar
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 acentuar
- acentuo first-person present singular
- acentuei first-person preterite singular
- acentuado participle past
- acentuares infinitive second-person singular
- acentuarmos first-person infinitive plural
- acentuardes infinitive plural second-person
- acentuarem infinitive plural third-person
- acentuando gerund
- acentuados masculine participle past
- acentuada feminine participle past
- acentuadas feminine participle past
- acentuas indicative present second-person
- acentua indicative present singular
- acentuamos first-person indicative plural
- acentuais indicative plural present
- acentuam indicative plural present
- acentuava first-person imperfect indicative
- acentuavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acentuar?
- Brazil /a.sẽ.tuˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.sẽ.tuˈa(h)]
- Brazil /a.sẽˈtwa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acentuar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acentuar in Portuguese?
acentuar 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).