apaixonar
Portuguese, verb/a.paj.ʃoˈna(ʁ)/
apaixonar is spelled A-P-A-I-X-O-N-A-R (9 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,590th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apaixonar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fall in love (to come to have feelings of love towards each other)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “inspirar paixão a”.
What does apaixonar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fall in love (to come to have feelings of love towards each other)
Eles se casaram faz tempo mas foi só agora que realmente se apaixonaram.
- 2
to fall in love with (to come to have feelings of love towards)
Eu achei que ela tinha se apaixonado por mim.
- 3
to make someone fall in love
Essa poção apaixona qualquer um!
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. inspirar paixão a 2. ter paixão 3. passar a ter paixão
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 apaixonar
- apaixono first-person present singular
- apaixonei first-person preterite singular
- apaixonado participle past
- apaixonares infinitive second-person singular
- apaixonarmos first-person infinitive plural
- apaixonardes infinitive plural second-person
- apaixonarem infinitive plural third-person
- apaixonando gerund
- apaixonados masculine participle past
- apaixonada feminine participle past
- apaixonadas feminine participle past
- apaixonas indicative present second-person
- apaixona indicative present singular
- apaixonamos first-person indicative plural
- apaixonais indicative plural present
- apaixonam indicative plural present
- apaixonava first-person imperfect indicative
- apaixonavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apaixonar?
- Brazil /a.paj.ʃoˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.paɪ̯.ʃoˈna(h)]
- /a.paj.ʃoˈna(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is apaixonar in Portuguese?
apaixonar appears 8.1 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).