contornar
Portuguese, verb/kõ.toʁˈna(ʁ)/
contornar is spelled C-O-N-T-O-R-N-A-R (9 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,792nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contornar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to circumvent, to avoid something in one's path” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer o contorno de”.
What does contornar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to circumvent, to avoid something in one's path
Melhor contornarmos esta região, ela é perigosa.
- 2
to surround a location
O castelo é contornado por um muro.
- 3
to overcome a problem with or without solving it
Contornei a pobreza.
- 4
to draw the contour of something
Crianças gostam de contornar suas mãos.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer o contorno de 2. andar em volta de 3. estender-se em roda de 4. tornar redondo
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 contornar
- contorno first-person present singular
- contornei first-person preterite singular
- contornado participle past
- contornares infinitive second-person singular
- contornarmos first-person infinitive plural
- contornardes infinitive plural second-person
- contornarem infinitive plural third-person
- contornando gerund
- contornados masculine participle past
- contornada feminine participle past
- contornadas feminine participle past
- contornas indicative present second-person
- contorna indicative present singular
- contornamos first-person indicative plural
- contornais indicative plural present
- contornam indicative plural present
- contornava first-person imperfect indicative
- contornavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce contornar?
- Brazil /kõ.toʁˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kõ.toɦˈna(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to contornar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is contornar in Portuguese?
contornar appears 3.8 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).