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cumprimentar

Portuguese, verb/kũ.pɾi.mẽˈta(ʁ)/

cumprimentar is spelled C-U-M-P-R-I-M-E-N-T-A-R (12 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,534th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cumprimentar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to greet, salute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “apresentar cumprimentos, saudações ou felicitações”.

What does cumprimentar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to greet, salute

  2. 2

    to compliment

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. apresentar cumprimentos, saudações ou felicitações: 2. exaltar, louvar ou elogiar:

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 cumprimentar

  • cumprimento first-person present singular
  • cumprimentei first-person preterite singular
  • cumprimentado participle past
  • cumprimentares infinitive second-person singular
  • cumprimentarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • cumprimentardes infinitive plural second-person
  • cumprimentarem infinitive plural third-person
  • cumprimentando gerund
  • cumprimentados masculine participle past
  • cumprimentada feminine participle past
  • cumprimentadas feminine participle past
  • cumprimentas indicative present second-person
  • cumprimenta indicative present singular
  • cumprimentamos first-person indicative plural
  • cumprimentais indicative plural present
  • cumprimentam indicative plural present
  • cumprimentava first-person imperfect indicative
  • cumprimentavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce cumprimentar?

  • Brazil /kũ.pɾi.mẽˈta(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [kũ.pɾi.mẽˈta(h)]
  • /kũ.pɾi.mẽˈta(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 cumprimentar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is cumprimentar in Portuguese?

cumprimentar appears 3.9 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).

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