activar
Portuguese, verb
activar is spelled A-C-T-I-V-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 50,402nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Activar is a Portuguese verb meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of ativar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar actividade a”.
What does activar mean in English?
verb
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pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of ativar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar actividade a 2. apressar a execução de 3. impulsionar; estimular; atear
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 activar
- activo first-person present singular
- activei first-person preterite singular
- activado participle past
- activares infinitive second-person singular
- activarmos first-person infinitive plural
- activardes infinitive plural second-person
- activarem infinitive plural third-person
- activando gerund
- activados masculine participle past
- activada feminine participle past
- activadas feminine participle past
- activas indicative present second-person
- activa indicative present singular
- activamos first-person indicative plural
- activais indicative plural present
- activam indicative plural present
- activava first-person imperfect indicative
- activavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is activar in Portuguese?
activar 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).