aposentar
Portuguese, verb/a.po.zẽˈta(ʁ)/
aposentar is spelled A-P-O-S-E-N-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears 6.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,662nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aposentar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to house, shelter, lodge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “hospedar”.
What does aposentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto house, shelter, lodge
- 2
to retire (leave office)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. hospedar 2. albergar 3. reformar 4. encerrar o exercício de uma atividade laboral de modo formal, consequentemente e comumente passando a receber o que é pago como valor da chamada aposentadoria
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 aposentar
- aposento first-person present singular
- aposentei first-person preterite singular
- aposentado participle past
- aposentares infinitive second-person singular
- aposentarmos first-person infinitive plural
- aposentardes infinitive plural second-person
- aposentarem infinitive plural third-person
- aposentando gerund
- aposentados masculine participle past
- aposentada feminine participle past
- aposentadas feminine participle past
- aposentas indicative present second-person
- aposenta indicative present singular
- aposentamos first-person indicative plural
- aposentais indicative plural present
- aposentam indicative plural present
- aposentava first-person imperfect indicative
- aposentavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aposentar?
- Brazil /a.po.zẽˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.po.zẽˈta(h)]
- /a.po.zẽˈta(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 aposentar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aposentar in Portuguese?
aposentar appears 6.0 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).