alegrar
Portuguese, verb/a.leˈɡɾa(ʁ)/
alegrar is spelled A-L-E-G-R-A-R (7 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 20,222nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alegrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to make happy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “causar alegria a”.
What does alegrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make happy
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. causar alegria a 2. tornar alegre 3. tornar mais formoso
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 alegrar
- alegro first-person present singular
- alegrei first-person preterite singular
- alegrado participle past
- alegrares infinitive second-person singular
- alegrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- alegrardes infinitive plural second-person
- alegrarem infinitive plural third-person
- alegrando gerund
- alegrados masculine participle past
- alegrada feminine participle past
- alegradas feminine participle past
- alegras indicative present second-person
- alegra indicative present singular
- alegramos first-person indicative plural
- alegrais indicative plural present
- alegram indicative plural present
- alegrava first-person imperfect indicative
- alegravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alegrar?
- Brazil /a.leˈɡɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.leˈɡɾa(h)]
- /a.leˈɡɾa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is alegrar in Portuguese?
alegrar appears 2.3 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).