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apear

Portuguese, verb/a.peˈa(ʁ)/

apear is spelled A-P-E-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 128,503rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to dismount” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desmontar”.

What does apear mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to dismount

  2. 2

    to alight

  3. 3

    to humiliate

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. desmontar 2. pôr a pé 3. humilhar 4. descer do cavalo ou do veículo

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 apear

  • apeio first-person present singular
  • apeei first-person preterite singular
  • apeado participle past
  • apeares infinitive second-person singular
  • apearmos first-person infinitive plural
  • apeardes infinitive plural second-person
  • apearem infinitive plural third-person
  • apeando gerund
  • apeados masculine participle past
  • apeada feminine participle past
  • apeadas feminine participle past
  • apeias indicative present second-person
  • apeia indicative present singular
  • apeamos first-person indicative plural
  • apeais indicative plural present
  • apeiam indicative plural present
  • apeava first-person imperfect indicative
  • apeavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce apear?

  • Brazil /a.peˈa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [a.peˈa(h)]
  • /a.peˈa(ɾ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is apear in Portuguese?

apear appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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