acercar
Portuguese, verb/a.seʁˈka(ʁ)/
acercar is spelled A-C-E-R-C-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 117,162nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acercar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to approach” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aproximar”.
What does acercar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to approach
- 2
to approximate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. aproximar 2. abeirar-se 3. avizinhar-se
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 acercar
- acerco first-person present singular
- acerquei first-person preterite singular
- acercado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- acercares infinitive second-person singular
- acercarmos first-person infinitive plural
- acercardes infinitive plural second-person
- acercarem infinitive plural third-person
- acercando gerund
- acercados masculine participle past
- acercada feminine participle past
- acercadas feminine participle past
- acercas indicative present second-person
- acerca indicative present singular
- acercamos first-person indicative plural
- acercais indicative plural present
- acercam indicative plural present
- acercava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acercar?
- Brazil /a.seʁˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.sehˈka(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is acercar in Portuguese?
acercar appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).