descolonizar
Portuguese, verb/des.ko.lo.niˈza(ʁ)/
descolonizar is spelled D-E-S-C-O-L-O-N-I-Z-A-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese, the 189,447th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descolonizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to decolonize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “encerrar o regime colonial de um país”.
What does descolonizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to decolonize
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. encerrar o regime colonial de um país 2. remover o pensamento ou a ideologia colonial de algo, mais especificamente as ideologias europeias introduzidas durante o período colonial
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 descolonizar
- descolonizo first-person present singular
- descolonizei first-person preterite singular
- descolonizado participle past
- descolonizares infinitive second-person singular
- descolonizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- descolonizardes infinitive plural second-person
- descolonizarem infinitive plural third-person
- descolonizando gerund
- descolonizados masculine participle past
- descolonizada feminine participle past
- descolonizadas feminine participle past
- descolonizas indicative present second-person
- descoloniza indicative present singular
- descolonizamos first-person indicative plural
- descolonizais indicative plural present
- descolonizam indicative plural present
- descolonizava first-person imperfect indicative
- descolonizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descolonizar?
- Brazil /des.ko.lo.niˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [des.ko.lo.niˈza(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.ko.lo.niˈza(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 descolonizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is descolonizar in Portuguese?
descolonizar appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).