desfalcar
Portuguese, verb/des.fawˈka(ʁ)/
desfalcar is spelled D-E-S-F-A-L-C-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 78,593rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desfalcar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to take away, to remove part of a larger amount” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tirar parte de”.
What does desfalcar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to take away, to remove part of a larger amount
- 2
to decrease, reduce, diminish
- 3
to defraud, to harm
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tirar parte de 2. defraudar
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 desfalcar
- desfalco first-person present singular
- desfalquei first-person preterite singular
- desfalcado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- desfalcares infinitive second-person singular
- desfalcarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desfalcardes infinitive plural second-person
- desfalcarem infinitive plural third-person
- desfalcando gerund
- desfalcados masculine participle past
- desfalcada feminine participle past
- desfalcadas feminine participle past
- desfalcas indicative present second-person
- desfalca indicative present singular
- desfalcamos first-person indicative plural
- desfalcais indicative plural present
- desfalcam indicative plural present
- desfalcava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desfalcar?
- Brazil /des.fawˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [des.faʊ̯ˈka(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.fawˈka(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desfalcar in Portuguese?
desfalcar appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).