depenar
Portuguese, verb/de.peˈna(ʁ)/
depenar is spelled D-E-P-E-N-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 103,739th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Depenar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to pluck (remove feathers from)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “retirar as partes de valor econômico ou material de algo”.
What does depenar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pluck (remove feathers from)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. retirar as partes de valor econômico ou material de algo 2. retirar as penas duma ave 3. extorquir
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 depenar
- depeno first-person present singular
- depenei first-person preterite singular
- depenado participle past
- depenares infinitive second-person singular
- depenarmos first-person infinitive plural
- depenardes infinitive plural second-person
- depenarem infinitive plural third-person
- depenando gerund
- depenados masculine participle past
- depenada feminine participle past
- depenadas feminine participle past
- depenas indicative present second-person
- depena indicative present singular
- depenamos first-person indicative plural
- depenais indicative plural present
- depenam indicative plural present
- depenava first-person imperfect indicative
- depenavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce depenar?
- Brazil /de.peˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.peˈna(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 depenar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is depenar in Portuguese?
depenar appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).