adornar
Portuguese, verb/a.doʁˈna(ʁ)/
adornar is spelled A-D-O-R-N-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 69,446th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adornar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to adorn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “colocar adorno ou enfeite”.
What does adornar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to adorn
- 2
to bend wood
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. colocar adorno ou enfeite
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 adornar
- adorno first-person present singular
- adornei first-person preterite singular
- adornado participle past
- adornares infinitive second-person singular
- adornarmos first-person infinitive plural
- adornardes infinitive plural second-person
- adornarem infinitive plural third-person
- adornando gerund
- adornados masculine participle past
- adornada feminine participle past
- adornadas feminine participle past
- adornas indicative present second-person
- adorna indicative present singular
- adornamos first-person indicative plural
- adornais indicative plural present
- adornam indicative plural present
- adornava first-person imperfect indicative
- adornavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adornar?
- Brazil /a.doʁˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.doɦˈna(h)]
- /a.doɾˈna(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adornar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adornar in Portuguese?
adornar appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).