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asfaltar

Portuguese, verb/as.fawˈta(ʁ)/

asfaltar is spelled A-S-F-A-L-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 105,827th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Asfaltar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to asphalt (to pave with asphalt)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cobrir de asfalto”.

What does asfaltar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to asphalt (to pave with asphalt)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. cobrir de asfalto

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 asfaltar

  • asfalto first-person present singular
  • asfaltei first-person preterite singular
  • asfaltado participle past
  • asfaltares infinitive second-person singular
  • asfaltarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • asfaltardes infinitive plural second-person
  • asfaltarem infinitive plural third-person
  • asfaltando gerund
  • asfaltados masculine participle past
  • asfaltada feminine participle past
  • asfaltadas feminine participle past
  • asfaltas indicative present second-person
  • asfalta indicative present singular
  • asfaltamos first-person indicative plural
  • asfaltais indicative plural present
  • asfaltam indicative plural present
  • asfaltava first-person imperfect indicative
  • asfaltavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce asfaltar?

  • Brazil /as.fawˈta(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [as.faʊ̯ˈta(h)]
  • /as.fawˈta(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 asfaltar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is asfaltar in Portuguese?

asfaltar appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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