apostar
Portuguese, verb/a.posˈta(ʁ)/
apostar is spelled A-P-O-S-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,991st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apostar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to bet (to make a guess about the outcome of an event)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer uma aposta”.
What does apostar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bet (to make a guess about the outcome of an event)
- 2
to bet (to be quite certain of something)
- 3
to invest
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer uma aposta 2. afirmar com certa convicção 3. sustentar 4. asseverar
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 apostar
- aposto first-person present singular
- apostei first-person preterite singular
- apostado participle past
- apostares infinitive second-person singular
- apostarmos first-person infinitive plural
- apostardes infinitive plural second-person
- apostarem infinitive plural third-person
- apostando gerund
- apostados masculine participle past
- apostada feminine participle past
- apostadas feminine participle past
- apostas indicative present second-person
- aposta indicative present singular
- apostamos first-person indicative plural
- apostais indicative plural present
- apostam indicative plural present
- apostava first-person imperfect indicative
- apostavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apostar?
- Brazil /a.posˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.posˈta(h)]
- /a.posˈta(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 apostar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apostar in Portuguese?
apostar appears 11 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).