aprovar
Portuguese, verb/a.pɾoˈva(ʁ)/
aprovar is spelled A-P-R-O-V-A-R (7 letters) and appears 8.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,020th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aprovar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to approve” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “julgar apto”.
What does aprovar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to approve
- 2
to endorse
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. julgar apto 2. confirmar
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 aprovar
- aprovo first-person present singular
- aprovei first-person preterite singular
- aprovado participle past
- aprovares infinitive second-person singular
- aprovarmos first-person infinitive plural
- aprovardes infinitive plural second-person
- aprovarem infinitive plural third-person
- aprovando gerund
- aprovados masculine participle past
- aprovada feminine participle past
- aprovadas feminine participle past
- aprovas indicative present second-person
- aprova indicative present singular
- aprovamos first-person indicative plural
- aprovais indicative plural present
- aprovam indicative plural present
- aprovava first-person imperfect indicative
- aprovavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aprovar?
- Brazil /a.pɾoˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.pɾoˈva(h)]
- Portugal /ɐ.pɾu.ˈvaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aprovar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aprovar in Portuguese?
aprovar appears 8.9 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).