cortejar
Portuguese, verb/koʁ.teˈʒa(ʁ)/
cortejar is spelled C-O-R-T-E-J-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 63,394th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cortejar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to court (to attempt to win someone’s affections)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer corte a alguém, galantear, lisonjear”.
What does cortejar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to court (to attempt to win someone’s affections)
- 2
to court (to engage in behaviour leading to mating)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer corte a alguém, galantear, lisonjear 2. deferir tratamento cortês a (alguém), tratar educadamente 3. saudar, cumprimentar 4. bajular, mimar com o objetivo de conseguir benefícios
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 cortejar
- cortejo first-person present singular
- cortejei first-person preterite singular
- cortejado participle past
- cortejares infinitive second-person singular
- cortejarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cortejardes infinitive plural second-person
- cortejarem infinitive plural third-person
- cortejando gerund
- cortejados masculine participle past
- cortejada feminine participle past
- cortejadas feminine participle past
- cortejas indicative present second-person
- corteja indicative present singular
- cortejamos first-person indicative plural
- cortejais indicative plural present
- cortejam indicative plural present
- cortejava first-person imperfect indicative
- cortejavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cortejar?
- Brazil /koʁ.teˈʒa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [koh.teˈʒa(h)]
- /koɾ.teˈʒa(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 cortejar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cortejar in Portuguese?
cortejar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).