desalentar
Portuguese, verb/de.za.lẽˈta(ʁ)/
desalentar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to discourage; to dishearten (to make someone lose their enthusiasm)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tirar o alento a”.
What does desalentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to discourage; to dishearten (to make someone lose their enthusiasm)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tirar o alento a 2. desanimar
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 desalentar
- desalento first-person present singular
- desalentei first-person preterite singular
- desalentado participle past
- desalentares infinitive second-person singular
- desalentarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desalentardes infinitive plural second-person
- desalentarem infinitive plural third-person
- desalentando gerund
- desalentados masculine participle past
- desalentada feminine participle past
- desalentadas feminine participle past
- desalentas indicative present second-person
- desalenta indicative present singular
- desalentamos first-person indicative plural
- desalentais indicative plural present
- desalentam indicative plural present
- desalentava first-person imperfect indicative
- desalentavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desalentar?
- Brazil /de.za.lẽˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.za.lẽˈta(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.za.lẽˈta(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to desalentar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.