assentir
Portuguese, verb/a.sẽˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/
assentir is spelled A-S-S-E-N-T-I-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written Portuguese, the 166,096th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Assentir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to assent; to consent; to agree” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “consentir”.
What does assentir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to assent; to consent; to agree
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. consentir 2. concordar 3. permitir
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 assentir
- assinto first-person present singular
- assente present singular third-person
- assenti first-person preterite singular
- assentido participle past
- i-e alternation
- assentires infinitive second-person singular
- assentirmos first-person infinitive plural
- assentirdes infinitive plural second-person
- assentirem infinitive plural third-person
- assentindo gerund
- assentidos masculine participle past
- assentida feminine participle past
- assentidas feminine participle past
- assentes indicative present second-person
- assentimos first-person indicative plural
- assentis indicative plural present
- assentem indicative plural present
- assentia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce assentir?
- Brazil /a.sẽˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.sẽˈt͡ʃi(h)]
- /a.sẽˈt͡ʃi(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 assentir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is assentir in Portuguese?
assentir appears about once in every 33 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).