ausente
Portuguese, adjective/awˈzẽ.t͡ʃi/
ausente is spelled A-U-S-E-N-T-E (7 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,015th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ausente is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “absent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of ausentar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que não está presente”.
What does ausente mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineabsent
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que não está presente 2. que não esteve presente na criação dos filhos 3. que está longe do lugar onde mora
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 ausente
- ausentes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ausente?
- Brazil /awˈzẽ.t͡ʃi/
- Brazil [aʊ̯ˈzẽ.t͡ʃi]
- Portugal /awˈzẽ.tɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ausente
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ausente in Portuguese?
ausente appears 7.6 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).