descrever
Portuguese, verb/des.kɾeˈve(ʁ)/
descrever is spelled D-E-S-C-R-E-V-E-R (9 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,969th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descrever is a Portuguese verb meaning “to describe (to represent in words; to give an account of)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dizer como algo é constituído em detalhes”.
What does descrever mean in English?
verb
- 1
to describe (to represent in words; to give an account of)
- 2
to describe; to delineate (to move in a way that the path forms a given shape)
- 3
to describe (to introduce a taxon to science)
- 4
to describe (to give rise to a geometrical structure)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dizer como algo é constituído em detalhes
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 descrever
- descrevo first-person present singular
- descrevi first-person preterite singular
- descrito participle past
- descreveres infinitive second-person singular
- descrevermos first-person infinitive plural
- descreverdes infinitive plural second-person
- descreverem infinitive plural third-person
- descrevendo gerund
- descritos masculine participle past
- descrita feminine participle past
- descritas feminine participle past
- descreves indicative present second-person
- descreve indicative present singular
- descrevemos first-person indicative plural
- descreveis indicative plural present
- descrevem indicative plural present
- descrevia first-person imperfect indicative
- descrevias imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descrever?
- Brazil /des.kɾeˈve(ʁ)/
- Brazil [des.kɾeˈve(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.kɾeˈve(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 descrever
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is descrever in Portuguese?
descrever appears 21 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).