arruinar
Portuguese, verb/a.ʁu.iˈna(ʁ)/
arruinar is spelled A-R-R-U-I-N-A-R (8 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 24,882nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arruinar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to ruin, spoil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “transitivo direto”.
What does arruinar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ruin, spoil
- 2
to bankrupt
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. transitivo direto: 2. causar ruína de estrutura ou edifício, deixar em escombros, arrasar, destruir: 3. causar ruína económica, fazer falir, reduzir à pobreza: 4. prejudicar a saúde ou parte do organismo de forma irreparável, debilitar:
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 arruinar
- arruíno first-person present singular
- arruinei first-person preterite singular
- arruinado participle past
- arruinares infinitive second-person singular
- arruinarmos first-person infinitive plural
- arruinardes infinitive plural second-person
- arruinarem infinitive plural third-person
- arruinando gerund
- arruinados masculine participle past
- arruinada feminine participle past
- arruinadas feminine participle past
- arruínas indicative present second-person
- arruína indicative present singular
- arruinamos first-person indicative plural
- arruinais indicative plural present
- arruínam indicative plural present
- arruinava first-person imperfect indicative
- arruinavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arruinar?
- Brazil /a.ʁu.iˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.hu.iˈna(h)]
- Brazil /a.ʁujˈna(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arruinar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arruinar in Portuguese?
arruinar appears 1.7 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).