aluir
Portuguese, verb/a.luˈi(ʁ)/
aluir is spelled A-L-U-I-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written Portuguese, the 213,834th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aluir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fall down, to collapse, to crumble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “abalar”.
What does aluir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fall down, to collapse, to crumble
- 2
to knock down, to overturn
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. abalar 2. arruinar
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 aluir
- aluo first-person present singular
- aluí first-person preterite singular
- aluído participle past
- aluíres infinitive second-person singular
- aluirmos first-person infinitive plural
- aluirdes infinitive plural second-person
- aluírem infinitive plural third-person
- aluindo gerund
- aluídos masculine participle past
- aluída feminine participle past
- aluídas feminine participle past
- aluis indicative present second-person
- alui indicative present singular
- aluímos first-person indicative plural
- aluís indicative plural present
- aluem indicative plural present
- aluía first-person imperfect indicative
- aluías imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aluir?
- Brazil /a.luˈi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.luˈi(h)]
- Brazil /aˈlwi(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aluir in Portuguese?
aluir appears about once in every 59 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).