desapaixonar
Portuguese, verb/de.za.paj.ʃoˈna(ʁ)/
desapaixonar is spelled D-E-S-A-P-A-I-X-O-N-A-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 87 million words in written Portuguese, the 253,762nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desapaixonar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to unlove, to fall out of love (with) (to stop loving)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “perder a paixão”.
What does desapaixonar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unlove, to fall out of love (with) (to stop loving)
Eu não consigo me desapaixonar por ela, por mais que eu tente...
- 2
to lose passion; to settle, to become serene
Quando atingiu a velhice, desapaixonou-se.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. perder a paixão 2. abaixar a intensidade dos sentimentos 3. tornar alegre; distrair, confortar
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 desapaixonar
- desapaixono first-person present singular
- desapaixonei first-person preterite singular
- desapaixonado participle past
- desapaixonares infinitive second-person singular
- desapaixonarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desapaixonardes infinitive plural second-person
- desapaixonarem infinitive plural third-person
- desapaixonando gerund
- desapaixonados masculine participle past
- desapaixonada feminine participle past
- desapaixonadas feminine participle past
- desapaixonas indicative present second-person
- desapaixona indicative present singular
- desapaixonamos first-person indicative plural
- desapaixonais indicative plural present
- desapaixonam indicative plural present
- desapaixonava first-person imperfect indicative
- desapaixonavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desapaixonar?
- Brazil /de.za.paj.ʃoˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.za.paɪ̯.ʃoˈna(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.za.paj.ʃoˈna(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desapaixonar in Portuguese?
desapaixonar appears about once in every 87 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).