capacitar
Portuguese, verb/ka.pa.siˈta(ʁ)/
capacitar is spelled C-A-P-A-C-I-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 21,687th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Capacitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to capacitate (to make capable)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar(-se) capaz; habilitar(-se)”.
What does capacitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to capacitate (to make capable)
Escolas capacitam estudantes nas habilidades que precisam.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar(-se) capaz; habilitar(-se)
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 capacitar
- capacito first-person present singular
- capacitei first-person preterite singular
- capacitado participle past
- capacitares infinitive second-person singular
- capacitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- capacitardes infinitive plural second-person
- capacitarem infinitive plural third-person
- capacitando gerund
- capacitados masculine participle past
- capacitada feminine participle past
- capacitadas feminine participle past
- capacitas indicative present second-person
- capacita indicative present singular
- capacitamos first-person indicative plural
- capacitais indicative plural present
- capacitam indicative plural present
- capacitava first-person imperfect indicative
- capacitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce capacitar?
- Brazil /ka.pa.siˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ka.pa.siˈta(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is capacitar in Portuguese?
capacitar appears 2.1 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).