assai
Portuguese, verb/aˈsaj/
assai is a Portuguese verb meaning “second-person plural imperative of assar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does assai mean in English?
verb
- 1
second-person plural imperative of assar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado do Paraná
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.
How do you pronounce assai?
- Brazil /aˈsaj/
- Brazil [aˈsaɪ̯]
- Portugal /ɐˈsaj/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is assai in Portuguese?
assai appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).