alhear
Portuguese, verb/a.ʎiˈa(ʁ)/
alhear is spelled A-L-H-E-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written Portuguese, the 193,334th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alhear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to alienate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar alheio”.
What does alhear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to alienate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar alheio 2. alienar
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 alhear
- alheio first-person present singular
- alheei first-person preterite singular
- alheado participle past
- alheares infinitive second-person singular
- alhearmos first-person infinitive plural
- alheardes infinitive plural second-person
- alhearem infinitive plural third-person
- alheando gerund
- alheados masculine participle past
- alheada feminine participle past
- alheadas feminine participle past
- alheias indicative present second-person
- alheia indicative present singular
- alheamos first-person indicative plural
- alheais indicative plural present
- alheiam indicative plural present
- alheava first-person imperfect indicative
- alheavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alhear?
- Brazil /a.ʎiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.ʎiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /aˈʎja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is alhear in Portuguese?
alhear appears about once in every 47 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).