aculturar
Portuguese, verb/a.kuw.tuˈɾa(ʁ)/
aculturar is spelled A-C-U-L-T-U-R-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written Portuguese, the 264,336th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aculturar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to acculture (to change a person's culture by influence of another)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “proceder à aculturação de um indivíduo ou de um grupo”.
What does aculturar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to acculture (to change a person's culture by influence of another)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. proceder à aculturação de um indivíduo ou de um grupo
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 aculturar
- aculturo first-person present singular
- aculturei first-person preterite singular
- aculturado participle past
- aculturares infinitive second-person singular
- aculturarmos first-person infinitive plural
- aculturardes infinitive plural second-person
- aculturarem infinitive plural third-person
- aculturando gerund
- aculturados masculine participle past
- aculturada feminine participle past
- aculturadas feminine participle past
- aculturas indicative present second-person
- acultura indicative present singular
- aculturamos first-person indicative plural
- aculturais indicative plural present
- aculturam indicative plural present
- aculturava first-person imperfect indicative
- aculturavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aculturar?
- Brazil /a.kuw.tuˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.kuʊ̯.tuˈɾa(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aculturar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aculturar in Portuguese?
aculturar appears about once in every 95 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).