desacostumar
Portuguese, verb/de.za.kos.tuˈma(ʁ)/
desacostumar is spelled D-E-S-A-C-O-S-T-U-M-A-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 72 million words in written Portuguese, the 233,859th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desacostumar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to make (someone/something) lose the habit, get out of habit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “perder o costume”.
What does desacostumar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make (someone/something) lose the habit, get out of habit
- 2
to lose the habit
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. perder o costume 2. fazer perder o costume
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 desacostumar
- desacostumo first-person present singular
- desacostumei first-person preterite singular
- desacostumado participle past
- desacostumares infinitive second-person singular
- desacostumarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desacostumardes infinitive plural second-person
- desacostumarem infinitive plural third-person
- desacostumando gerund
- desacostumados masculine participle past
- desacostumada feminine participle past
- desacostumadas feminine participle past
- desacostumas indicative present second-person
- desacostuma indicative present singular
- desacostumamos first-person indicative plural
- desacostumais indicative plural present
- desacostumam indicative plural present
- desacostumava first-person imperfect indicative
- desacostumavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desacostumar?
- Brazil /de.za.kos.tuˈma(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.za.kos.tuˈma(h)]
- /de.za.kos.tuˈma(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desacostumar in Portuguese?
desacostumar appears about once in every 72 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).