contentar
Portuguese, verb/kõ.tẽˈta(ʁ)/
contentar is spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19,354th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contentar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to content; to satisfy (to make content)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar contente”.
What does contentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to content; to satisfy (to make content)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar contente 2. satisfazer
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 contentar
- contento first-person present singular
- contentei first-person preterite singular
- contentado participle past
- contentares infinitive second-person singular
- contentarmos first-person infinitive plural
- contentardes infinitive plural second-person
- contentarem infinitive plural third-person
- contentando gerund
- contentados masculine participle past
- contentada feminine participle past
- contentadas feminine participle past
- contentas indicative present second-person
- contenta indicative present singular
- contentamos first-person indicative plural
- contentais indicative plural present
- contentam indicative plural present
- contentava first-person imperfect indicative
- contentavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce contentar?
- Brazil /kõ.tẽˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kõ.tẽˈta(h)]
- /kõ.tẽˈta(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 contentar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is contentar in Portuguese?
contentar appears 2.5 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).