auxiliar
Portuguese, verb/aw.si.liˈaʁ/
auxiliar is spelled A-U-X-I-L-I-A-R (8 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,299th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Auxiliar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to aid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ajudar, prestar auxílio a”.
What does auxiliar mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineauxiliary
verb
- 1
to aid
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que ajuda, que auxilia
noun: 1. ajudante, assistente
verb: 1. ajudar, prestar auxílio a
verb: 1. primeira pessoa do singular do futuro do subjuntivo do verbo auxiliar 2. terceira pessoa do singular do futuro do subjuntivo do verbo auxiliar 3. primeira pessoa do singular do infinitivo pessoal do verbo auxiliar 4. terceira pessoa do singular do infinitivo pessoal do verbo auxiliar
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 auxiliar
- auxiliares plural
- auxilio first-person present singular
- auxiliei first-person preterite singular
- auxiliado participle past
- auxiliarmos first-person infinitive plural
- auxiliardes infinitive plural second-person
- auxiliarem infinitive plural third-person
- auxiliando gerund
- auxiliados masculine participle past
- auxiliada feminine participle past
- auxiliadas feminine participle past
- auxilias indicative present second-person
- auxilia indicative present singular
- auxiliamos first-person indicative plural
- auxiliais indicative plural present
- auxiliam indicative plural present
- auxiliava first-person imperfect indicative
- auxiliavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce auxiliar?
- Brazil /aw.si.liˈaʁ/
- Brazil [aʊ̯.si.liˈah]
- Brazil /aw.siˈljaʁ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to auxiliar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is auxiliar in Portuguese?
auxiliar appears 19 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).