desorientar
Portuguese, verb/de.zo.ɾi.ẽˈta(ʁ)/
desorientar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to bewilder; to disorientate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “perder a direção correta”.
What does desorientar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bewilder; to disorientate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. perder a direção correta 2. deixar de ter rumo 3. desconcertar-se 4. deixar de ter confiança, segurança
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 desorientar
- desoriento first-person present singular
- desorientei first-person preterite singular
- desorientado participle past
- desorientares infinitive second-person singular
- desorientarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desorientardes infinitive plural second-person
- desorientarem infinitive plural third-person
- desorientando gerund
- desorientados masculine participle past
- desorientada feminine participle past
- desorientadas feminine participle past
- desorientas indicative present second-person
- desorienta indicative present singular
- desorientamos first-person indicative plural
- desorientais indicative plural present
- desorientam indicative plural present
- desorientava first-person imperfect indicative
- desorientavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desorientar?
- Brazil /de.zo.ɾi.ẽˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.zo.ɾi.ẽˈta(h)]
- Brazil /de.zo.ɾjẽˈta(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 desorientar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desorientar in Portuguese?
desorientar appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).