aproveitar
Portuguese, verb/a.pɾo.vejˈta(ʁ)/
aproveitar is spelled A-P-R-O-V-E-I-T-A-R (10 letters) and appears 38 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,420th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aproveitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to take, appropriate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tirar proveito”.
What does aproveitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to take, appropriate
- 2
to avail, to seize; utilize, to use
- 3
to be useful
- 4
to take advantage of; to benefit, to put to (good/better) use, to make (good/better) use of, to make the best of
Você deveria aproveitar essa oportunidade.
- 5
to harness; to utilize
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tirar proveito
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 aproveitar
- aproveito first-person present singular
- aproveitei first-person preterite singular
- aproveitado participle past
- aproveitares infinitive second-person singular
- aproveitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- aproveitardes infinitive plural second-person
- aproveitarem infinitive plural third-person
- aproveitando gerund
- aproveitados masculine participle past
- aproveitada feminine participle past
- aproveitadas feminine participle past
- aproveitas indicative present second-person
- aproveita indicative present singular
- aproveitamos first-person indicative plural
- aproveitais indicative plural present
- aproveitam indicative plural present
- aproveitava first-person imperfect indicative
- aproveitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aproveitar?
- Brazil /a.pɾo.vejˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.pɾo.veɪ̯ˈta(h)]
- /a.pɾo.vejˈta(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 aproveitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aproveitar in Portuguese?
aproveitar appears 38 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).