afectar
Portuguese, verb
afectar is spelled A-F-E-C-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 21,396th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Afectar is a Portuguese verb meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of afetar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vide afetar”.
What does afectar mean in English?
verb
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pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of afetar; 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 afetar
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 afectar
- afecto first-person present singular
- afectei first-person preterite singular
- afectado participle past
- afectares infinitive second-person singular
- afectarmos first-person infinitive plural
- afectardes infinitive plural second-person
- afectarem infinitive plural third-person
- afectando gerund
- afectados masculine participle past
- afectada feminine participle past
- afectadas feminine participle past
- afectas indicative present second-person
- afecta indicative present singular
- afectamos first-person indicative plural
- afectais indicative plural present
- afectam indicative plural present
- afectava first-person imperfect indicative
- afectavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is afectar in Portuguese?
afectar appears 2.1 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).