atentar
Portuguese, verb/a.tẽˈta(ʁ)/
atentar is spelled A-T-E-N-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 21,687th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Atentar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to commit or attempt to commit (a crime motivated by ideology)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “observar com atenção”.
What does atentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to commit or attempt to commit (a crime motivated by ideology)
- 2
to do something that contravenes a convention, morality, religion, rights, etc.
Atentar contra os direitos humanos.
verb
- 1
to pay attention to something
verb
- 1
to tempt (to provoke someone to do wrong)
- 2
informalto bother; to irritate; to annoy
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. observar com atenção 2. considerar 3. cometer atentado 4. fazer bagunça, pirraçar
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 atentar
- atento first-person present singular
- atentei first-person preterite singular
- atentado participle past
- atentares infinitive second-person singular
- atentarmos first-person infinitive plural
- atentardes infinitive plural second-person
- atentarem infinitive plural third-person
- atentando gerund
- atentados masculine participle past
- atentada feminine participle past
- atentadas feminine participle past
- atentas indicative present second-person
- atenta indicative present singular
- atentamos first-person indicative plural
- atentais indicative plural present
- atentam indicative plural present
- atentava first-person imperfect indicative
- atentavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce atentar?
- Brazil /a.tẽˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.tẽˈta(h)]
- Portugal /ɐ.tẽ.ˈtaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is atentar in Portuguese?
atentar appears 2.1 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).