amortizar
Portuguese, verb/a.moʁ.t͡ʃiˈza(ʁ)/
amortizar is spelled A-M-O-R-T-I-Z-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 115,974th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Amortizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to amortize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ir pagando gradualmente (dívidas)”.
What does amortizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to amortize
- 2
to pay in installments
- 3
to write off, to redeem
A empresa amortizou os empréstimos dos clientes que não pagavam.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ir pagando gradualmente (dívidas)
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 amortizar
- amortizo first-person present singular
- amortizei first-person preterite singular
- amortizado participle past
- amortizares infinitive second-person singular
- amortizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- amortizardes infinitive plural second-person
- amortizarem infinitive plural third-person
- amortizando gerund
- amortizados masculine participle past
- amortizada feminine participle past
- amortizadas feminine participle past
- amortizas indicative present second-person
- amortiza indicative present singular
- amortizamos first-person indicative plural
- amortizais indicative plural present
- amortizam indicative plural present
- amortizava first-person imperfect indicative
- amortizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce amortizar?
- Brazil /a.moʁ.t͡ʃiˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.moh.t͡ʃiˈza(h)]
- /a.moɾ.t͡ʃiˈza(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 amortizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is amortizar in Portuguese?
amortizar appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).