aguentar
Portuguese, verb
aguentar is spelled A-G-U-E-N-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,625th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aguentar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to support (to keep from falling)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a diaeresis, agüentar is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. With an accent, agùentar is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1920) of aguentar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sustentar ou suportar peso, carga, trabalho, ou situação difícil”.
What does aguentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to support (to keep from falling)
- 2
to bear, to put up with
Não aguento mais!
- 3
to hold out; to hold on
Temos de aguentar até ao fim.
- 4
to hold; to hold up
verb
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1990 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of aguentar; may still occur as a sporadic misspelling
verb
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1920) of aguentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sustentar ou suportar peso, carga, trabalho, ou situação difícil
verb: 1. grafia antiga de aguentar
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 aguentar
- aguento first-person present singular
- aguentei first-person preterite singular
- aguentado participle past
- aguentares infinitive second-person singular
- aguentarmos first-person infinitive plural
- aguentardes infinitive plural second-person
- aguentarem infinitive plural third-person
- aguentando gerund
- aguentados masculine participle past
- aguentada feminine participle past
- aguentadas feminine participle past
- aguentas indicative present second-person
- aguenta indicative present singular
- aguentamos first-person indicative plural
- aguentais indicative plural present
- aguentam indicative plural present
- aguentava first-person imperfect indicative
- aguentavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to aguentar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aguentar in Portuguese?
aguentar appears 18 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).