combater
Portuguese, verb/kõ.baˈte(ʁ)/
combater is spelled C-O-M-B-A-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears 25 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,549th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Combater is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fight; to combat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “lutar”.
What does combater mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fight; to combat
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. lutar 2. pelejar 3. travar combate
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 combater
- combato first-person present singular
- combati first-person preterite singular
- combatido participle past
- combateres infinitive second-person singular
- combatermos first-person infinitive plural
- combaterdes infinitive plural second-person
- combaterem infinitive plural third-person
- combatendo gerund
- combatidos masculine participle past
- combatida feminine participle past
- combatidas feminine participle past
- combates indicative present second-person
- combate indicative present singular
- combatemos first-person indicative plural
- combateis indicative plural present
- combatem indicative plural present
- combatia first-person imperfect indicative
- combatias imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce combater?
- Brazil /kõ.baˈte(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kõ.baˈte(h)]
- /kõ.baˈte(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 combater
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is combater in Portuguese?
combater appears 25 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).