apontar
Portuguese, verb/a.põˈta(ʁ)/
apontar is spelled A-P-O-N-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,830th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apontar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to point out, to indicate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “direcionar parte do corpo ou objeto para algo que se quer chamar atenção”.
What does apontar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to point out, to indicate
- 2
to reference, to mention
- 3
to give, to cite, to adduce (a reason, evidence, etc.)
- 4
to point
- 5
to aim
verb
- 1
to sharpen
- 2
to appear, to emerge
- 3
to sprout, to germinate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. direcionar parte do corpo ou objeto para algo que se quer chamar atenção; 2. registrar 3. fazer pontaria 4. formar ponta
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 apontar
- aponto first-person present singular
- apontei first-person preterite singular
- apontado participle past
- apontares infinitive second-person singular
- apontarmos first-person infinitive plural
- apontardes infinitive plural second-person
- apontarem infinitive plural third-person
- apontando gerund
- apontados masculine participle past
- apontada feminine participle past
- apontadas feminine participle past
- apontas indicative present second-person
- aponta indicative present singular
- apontamos first-person indicative plural
- apontais indicative plural present
- apontam indicative plural present
- apontava first-person imperfect indicative
- apontavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apontar?
- Brazil /a.põˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.põˈta(h)]
- /a.põˈta(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 apontar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apontar in Portuguese?
apontar appears 13 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).