avir
Portuguese, verb/aˈvi(ʁ)/
avir is spelled A-V-I-R (4 letters) and appears about once in every 91 million words in written Portuguese, the 258,761st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to make agree; to bring into agreement; to appease” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ajustar”.
What does avir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make agree; to bring into agreement; to appease
- 2
to arrange oneself as best one can; to accommodate oneself
- 3
to get rid of difficulties
- 4
to reconcile; to agree
- 5
informalobsoleteto happen
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ajustar 2. apaziguar
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 avir
- avenho first-person present singular
- avim first-person preterite singular
- avindo participle past
- avires infinitive second-person singular
- avirmos first-person infinitive plural
- avirdes infinitive plural second-person
- avirem infinitive plural third-person
- avindos masculine participle past
- avinda feminine participle past
- avindas feminine participle past
- avéns indicative present second-person
- avém indicative present singular
- avimos first-person indicative plural
- avindes indicative plural present
- avêm indicative plural present
- avinha first-person imperfect indicative
- avinhas imperfect indicative second-person
- avínhamos first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avir?
- Brazil /aˈvi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [aˈvi(h)]
- /aˈvi(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is avir in Portuguese?
avir appears about once in every 91 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).