aprestar
Portuguese, verb/a.pɾesˈta(ʁ)/
aprestar is spelled A-P-R-E-S-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 89 million words in written Portuguese, the 255,764th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aprestar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to harness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aparelhar”.
What does aprestar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to harness
- 2
to prepare, ready
- 3
to rig
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. aparelhar 2. aprontar 3. prover do necessário
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 aprestar
- apresto first-person present singular
- aprestei first-person preterite singular
- aprestado participle past
- aprestares infinitive second-person singular
- aprestarmos first-person infinitive plural
- aprestardes infinitive plural second-person
- aprestarem infinitive plural third-person
- aprestando gerund
- aprestados masculine participle past
- aprestada feminine participle past
- aprestadas feminine participle past
- aprestas indicative present second-person
- apresta indicative present singular
- aprestamos first-person indicative plural
- aprestais indicative plural present
- aprestam indicative plural present
- aprestava first-person imperfect indicative
- aprestavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aprestar?
- Brazil /a.pɾesˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.pɾesˈta(h)]
- /a.pɾesˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aprestar in Portuguese?
aprestar appears about once in every 89 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).