aumentar
Portuguese, verb/aw.mẽˈta(ʁ)/
aumentar is spelled A-U-M-E-N-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 62 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,567th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aumentar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to increase (become larger)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar maior, ampliar”.
What does aumentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to increase (become larger)
- 2
to increase, augment (cause something to become larger)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar maior, ampliar: 2. acrescentar, adicionar: 3. ficar maior, crescer:
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 aumentar
- aumento first-person present singular
- aumentei first-person preterite singular
- aumentado participle past
- aumentares infinitive second-person singular
- aumentarmos first-person infinitive plural
- aumentardes infinitive plural second-person
- aumentarem infinitive plural third-person
- aumentando gerund
- aumentados masculine participle past
- aumentada feminine participle past
- aumentadas feminine participle past
- aumentas indicative present second-person
- aumenta indicative present singular
- aumentamos first-person indicative plural
- aumentais indicative plural present
- aumentam indicative plural present
- aumentava first-person imperfect indicative
- aumentavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aumentar?
- Brazil /aw.mẽˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [aʊ̯.mẽˈta(h)]
- /aw.mẽˈta(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 aumentar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aumentar in Portuguese?
aumentar appears 62 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).