almejar
Portuguese, verb/aw.meˈʒa(ʁ)/
almejar is spelled A-L-M-E-J-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 62,709th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Almejar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to aspire; to long for (to want something very much)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desejar com ânsia”.
What does almejar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to aspire; to long for (to want something very much)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. desejar com ânsia 2. anelar
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 almejar
- almejo first-person present singular
- almejei first-person preterite singular
- almejado participle past
- almejares infinitive second-person singular
- almejarmos first-person infinitive plural
- almejardes infinitive plural second-person
- almejarem infinitive plural third-person
- almejando gerund
- almejados masculine participle past
- almejada feminine participle past
- almejadas feminine participle past
- almejas indicative present second-person
- almeja indicative present singular
- almejamos first-person indicative plural
- almejais indicative plural present
- almejam indicative plural present
- almejava first-person imperfect indicative
- almejavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce almejar?
- Brazil /aw.meˈʒa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [aʊ̯.meˈʒa(h)]
- /aw.meˈʒa(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 almejar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is almejar in Portuguese?
almejar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).