auscultar
Portuguese, verb/aws.kuwˈta(ʁ)/
auscultar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to auscultate (to listen to internal organs)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “examinar por auscultação”.
What does auscultar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to auscultate (to listen to internal organs)
- 2
to examine
- 3
to sound out (to question and listen attentively in order to discover a person's opinion, intent, or preference)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. examinar por auscultação 2. examinar com atenção, inquirir, procurar conhecer, sondar
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 auscultar
- ausculto first-person present singular
- auscultei first-person preterite singular
- auscultado participle past
- auscultares infinitive second-person singular
- auscultarmos first-person infinitive plural
- auscultardes infinitive plural second-person
- auscultarem infinitive plural third-person
- auscultando gerund
- auscultados masculine participle past
- auscultada feminine participle past
- auscultadas feminine participle past
- auscultas indicative present second-person
- ausculta indicative present singular
- auscultamos first-person indicative plural
- auscultais indicative plural present
- auscultam indicative plural present
- auscultava first-person imperfect indicative
- auscultavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce auscultar?
- Brazil /aws.kuwˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [aʊ̯s.kuʊ̯ˈta(h)]
- /aws.kuwˈta(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 auscultar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is auscultar in Portuguese?
auscultar appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).