ameaçar
Portuguese, verb/a.me.aˈsa(ʁ)/
ameaçar is spelled A-M-E-A-Ç-A-R (7 letters) and appears 6.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,972nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ameaçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to threaten (to make a threat against someone; to use threats)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “advertir (alguém que algo lhe pode acontecer)”.
What does ameaçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to threaten (to make a threat against someone; to use threats)
- 2
to endanger, menace
- 3
to portend, threaten
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. advertir (alguém que algo lhe pode acontecer) 2. fazer correr riscos 3. anunciar malefícios 4. amedrontar
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 ameaçar
- ameaço first-person present singular
- ameacei first-person preterite singular
- ameaçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- ameaçares infinitive second-person singular
- ameaçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- ameaçardes infinitive plural second-person
- ameaçarem infinitive plural third-person
- ameaçando gerund
- ameaçados masculine participle past
- ameaçada feminine participle past
- ameaçadas feminine participle past
- ameaças indicative present second-person
- ameaça indicative present singular
- ameaçamos first-person indicative plural
- ameaçais indicative plural present
- ameaçam indicative plural present
- ameaçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ameaçar?
- Brazil /a.me.aˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.me.aˈsa(h)]
- /a.me.aˈsa(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 ameaçar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ameaçar in Portuguese?
ameaçar appears 6.6 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).