apoiar
Portuguese, verb/a.pojˈa(ʁ)/
apoiar is spelled A-P-O-I-A-R (6 letters) and appears 34 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,675th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apoiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to second (to agree as a second person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar apoio a; aprovar”.
What does apoiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to second (to agree as a second person)
- 2
to support
- 3
to lean on (to rest or rely upon for support)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar apoio a; aprovar 2. defender, favorecer 3. sustentar, firmar 4. fundamentar-se
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 apoiar
- apoio first-person present singular
- apoiei first-person preterite singular
- apoiado participle past
- apoiares infinitive second-person singular
- apoiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- apoiardes infinitive plural second-person
- apoiarem infinitive plural third-person
- apoiando gerund
- apoiados masculine participle past
- apoiada feminine participle past
- apoiadas feminine participle past
- apóio Brazil first-person indicative
- apoias indicative present second-person
- apóias Brazil indicative present
- apoia indicative present singular
- apóia Brazil indicative present
- apoiamos first-person indicative plural
- apoiais indicative plural present
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apoiar?
- Brazil /a.pojˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.poɪ̯ˈa(h)]
- /a.pojˈa(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 apoiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apoiar in Portuguese?
apoiar appears 34 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).