adernar
Portuguese, verb/a.deʁˈna(ʁ)/
adernar is spelled A-D-E-R-N-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 87 million words in written Portuguese, the 253,762nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adernar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to heel until the gunwale of one side is under water; to capsize on its side” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tombar, inclinar”.
What does adernar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to heel until the gunwale of one side is under water; to capsize on its side
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tombar, inclinar 2. perder o navio o aprumo, a sua posição de horizontalidade, inclinado para um dos seus bordos
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 adernar
- aderno first-person present singular
- adernei first-person preterite singular
- adernado participle past
- adernares infinitive second-person singular
- adernarmos first-person infinitive plural
- adernardes infinitive plural second-person
- adernarem infinitive plural third-person
- adernando gerund
- adernados masculine participle past
- adernada feminine participle past
- adernadas feminine participle past
- adernas indicative present second-person
- aderna indicative present singular
- adernamos first-person indicative plural
- adernais indicative plural present
- adernam indicative plural present
- adernava first-person imperfect indicative
- adernavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adernar?
- Brazil /a.deʁˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.deɦˈna(h)]
- /a.deɾˈna(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is adernar in Portuguese?
adernar appears about once in every 87 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).