alertar
Portuguese, verb/a.leʁˈta(ʁ)/
alertar is spelled A-L-E-R-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 5.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,018th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alertar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to alert” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr em alerta”.
What does alertar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to alert
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr em alerta
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 alertar
- alerto first-person present singular
- alertei first-person preterite singular
- alertado participle past
- alertares infinitive second-person singular
- alertarmos first-person infinitive plural
- alertardes infinitive plural second-person
- alertarem infinitive plural third-person
- alertando gerund
- alertados masculine participle past
- alertada feminine participle past
- alertadas feminine participle past
- alertas indicative present second-person
- alerta indicative present singular
- alertamos first-person indicative plural
- alertais indicative plural present
- alertam indicative plural present
- alertava first-person imperfect indicative
- alertavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alertar?
- Brazil /a.leʁˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.lehˈta(h)]
- /a.leɾˈta(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 alertar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alertar in Portuguese?
alertar appears 5.8 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).