conter
Portuguese, verb/kõˈte(ʁ)/
conter is spelled C-O-N-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,459th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Conter is a Portuguese verb meaning “to contain, hold, carry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “encerrar”.
What does conter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to contain, hold, carry
- 2
to include
- 3
to restrain
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. encerrar 2. incluir 3. ter dentro de si 4. refrear
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 conter
- contenho first-person present singular
- contive first-person preterite singular
- contido participle past
- conteres infinitive second-person singular
- contermos first-person infinitive plural
- conterdes infinitive plural second-person
- conterem infinitive plural third-person
- contendo gerund
- contidos masculine participle past
- contida feminine participle past
- contidas feminine participle past
- conténs indicative present second-person
- contém indicative present singular
- contemos first-person indicative plural
- contendes indicative plural present
- contêm indicative plural present
- continha first-person imperfect indicative
- continhas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce conter?
- Brazil /kõˈte(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kõˈte(h)]
- /kõˈte(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 conter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is conter in Portuguese?
conter 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).