amestrar
Portuguese, verb/a.mesˈtɾa(ʁ)/
amestrar is spelled A-M-E-S-T-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written Portuguese, the 248,872nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Amestrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to instruct as a master” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar mestre”.
What does amestrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to instruct as a master
- 2
to train or tame an animal
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar mestre 2. ensinar 3. tornar perito
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 amestrar
- amestro first-person present singular
- amestrei first-person preterite singular
- amestrado participle past
- amestrares infinitive second-person singular
- amestrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- amestrardes infinitive plural second-person
- amestrarem infinitive plural third-person
- amestrando gerund
- amestrados masculine participle past
- amestrada feminine participle past
- amestradas feminine participle past
- amestras indicative present second-person
- amestra indicative present singular
- amestramos first-person indicative plural
- amestrais indicative plural present
- amestram indicative plural present
- amestrava first-person imperfect indicative
- amestravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce amestrar?
- Brazil /a.mesˈtɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.mesˈtɾa(h)]
- /a.mesˈtɾa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is amestrar in Portuguese?
amestrar appears about once in every 83 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).