alternar
Portuguese, verb/aw.teʁˈna(ʁ)/
alternar is spelled A-L-T-E-R-N-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 35,921st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alternar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to alternate (to perform by turns, or in succession)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “revezar; fazer variar sucessivamente”.
What does alternar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to alternate (to perform by turns, or in succession)
- 2
to alternate (to happen, succeed, or act by turns)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. revezar; fazer variar sucessivamente 2. colocar em posições recíprocas 3. dispor em ordem alternada 4. passar o foco, o destaque ou a visualização de uma janela para outra diferente
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 alternar
- alterno first-person present singular
- alternei first-person preterite singular
- alternado participle past
- alternares infinitive second-person singular
- alternarmos first-person infinitive plural
- alternardes infinitive plural second-person
- alternarem infinitive plural third-person
- alternando gerund
- alternados masculine participle past
- alternada feminine participle past
- alternadas feminine participle past
- alternas indicative present second-person
- alterna indicative present singular
- alternamos first-person indicative plural
- alternais indicative plural present
- alternam indicative plural present
- alternava first-person imperfect indicative
- alternavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alternar?
- Brazil /aw.teʁˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [aʊ̯.teɦˈna(h)]
- /aw.teɾˈna(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 alternar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alternar in Portuguese?
alternar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).