actuar
Portuguese, verb
actuar is spelled A-C-T-U-A-R (6 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 20,810th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Actuar is a Portuguese verb meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of atuar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vide atuar”.
What does actuar mean in English?
verb
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pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of atuar; 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. vide atuar
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 actuar
- actuo first-person present singular
- actuei first-person preterite singular
- actuado participle past
- actuares infinitive second-person singular
- actuarmos first-person infinitive plural
- actuardes infinitive plural second-person
- actuarem infinitive plural third-person
- actuando gerund
- actuados masculine participle past
- actuada feminine participle past
- actuadas feminine participle past
- actuas indicative present second-person
- actua indicative present singular
- actuamos first-person indicative plural
- actuais indicative plural present
- actuam indicative plural present
- actuava first-person imperfect indicative
- actuavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is actuar in Portuguese?
actuar appears 2.2 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).