desesperar
Portuguese, verb/d͡ʒi.zis.peˈɾa(ʁ)/
desesperar is spelled D-E-S-E-S-P-E-R-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 42,362nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desesperar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to despair (to despair of)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tirar ou fazer perder a esperança a”.
What does desesperar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to despair (to despair of)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tirar ou fazer perder a esperança a 2. causar desespero 3. perder a esperança
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 desesperar
- desespero first-person present singular
- desesperei first-person preterite singular
- desesperado participle past
- desesperares infinitive second-person singular
- desesperarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desesperardes infinitive plural second-person
- desesperarem infinitive plural third-person
- desesperando gerund
- desesperados masculine participle past
- desesperada feminine participle past
- desesperadas feminine participle past
- desesperas indicative present second-person
- desespera indicative present singular
- desesperamos first-person indicative plural
- desesperais indicative plural present
- desesperam indicative plural present
- desesperava first-person imperfect indicative
- desesperavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desesperar?
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.zis.peˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [d͡ʒi.zis.peˈɾa(h)]
- Brazil /de.zes.peˈɾa(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 desesperar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desesperar in Portuguese?
desesperar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).