adjetivar
Portuguese, verb/ad͡ʒ.ʒe.t͡ʃiˈva(ʁ)/
adjetivar is spelled A-D-J-E-T-I-V-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese, the 157,828th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adjetivar is a Portuguese verb meaning “adjective (to make an adjective of)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “empregar uma palavra de outra classe gramatical como adjetivo”.
What does adjetivar mean in English?
verb
- 1
adjective (to make an adjective of)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. empregar uma palavra de outra classe gramatical como adjetivo 2. colocar adjetivo em, qualificar 3. ajustar 4. coadunar
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 adjetivar
- adjetivo first-person present singular
- adjetivei first-person preterite singular
- adjetivado participle past
- adjetivares infinitive second-person singular
- adjetivarmos first-person infinitive plural
- adjetivardes infinitive plural second-person
- adjetivarem infinitive plural third-person
- adjetivando gerund
- adjetivados masculine participle past
- adjetivada feminine participle past
- adjetivadas feminine participle past
- adjetivas indicative present second-person
- adjetiva indicative present singular
- adjetivamos first-person indicative plural
- adjetivais indicative plural present
- adjetivam indicative plural present
- adjetivava first-person imperfect indicative
- adjetivavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adjetivar?
- Brazil /ad͡ʒ.ʒe.t͡ʃiˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ad͡ʒ.ʒe.t͡ʃiˈva(h)]
- Brazil /a.d͡ʒi.ʒe.t͡ʃiˈva(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adjetivar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adjetivar in Portuguese?
adjetivar appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).