acostumar
Portuguese, verb/a.kos.tuˈma(ʁ)/
acostumar is spelled A-C-O-S-T-U-M-A-R (9 letters) and appears 6.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,662nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acostumar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to accustom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “adquirir um costume, habituar”.
What does acostumar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to accustom
- 2
to get used to
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. adquirir um costume, habituar 2. habituar-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 acostumar
- acostumo first-person present singular
- acostumei first-person preterite singular
- acostumado participle past
- acostumares infinitive second-person singular
- acostumarmos first-person infinitive plural
- acostumardes infinitive plural second-person
- acostumarem infinitive plural third-person
- acostumando gerund
- acostumados masculine participle past
- acostumada feminine participle past
- acostumadas feminine participle past
- acostumas indicative present second-person
- acostuma indicative present singular
- acostumamos first-person indicative plural
- acostumais indicative plural present
- acostumam indicative plural present
- acostumava first-person imperfect indicative
- acostumavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acostumar?
- Brazil /a.kos.tuˈma(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.kos.tuˈma(h)]
- /a.kos.tuˈma(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 acostumar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acostumar in Portuguese?
acostumar appears 6.0 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).