alfinetar
Portuguese, verb/aw.fi.neˈta(ʁ)/
alfinetar is spelled A-L-F-I-N-E-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 81,937th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alfinetar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to pin (to fasten with a pin)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “picar com alfinete”.
What does alfinetar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pin (to fasten with a pin)
- 2
to strike with a pin or any other slender, pointed object
- 3
to criticise harshly or subtly
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. picar com alfinete
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 alfinetar
- alfineto first-person present singular
- alfinetei first-person preterite singular
- alfinetado participle past
- alfinetares infinitive second-person singular
- alfinetarmos first-person infinitive plural
- alfinetardes infinitive plural second-person
- alfinetarem infinitive plural third-person
- alfinetando gerund
- alfinetados masculine participle past
- alfinetada feminine participle past
- alfinetadas feminine participle past
- alfinetas indicative present second-person
- alfineta indicative present singular
- alfinetamos first-person indicative plural
- alfinetais indicative plural present
- alfinetam indicative plural present
- alfinetava first-person imperfect indicative
- alfinetavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alfinetar?
- Brazil /aw.fi.neˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [aʊ̯.fi.neˈta(h)]
- /aw.fi.neˈta(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 alfinetar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alfinetar in Portuguese?
alfinetar appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).