desposar
Portuguese, verb/dɨʃ.puˈzaɾ/
desposar is spelled D-E-S-P-O-S-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 73,054th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desposar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to espouse (become married to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “casar”.
What does desposar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to espouse (become married to)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. casar
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 desposar
- desposo first-person present singular
- desposei first-person preterite singular
- desposado participle past
- desposares infinitive second-person singular
- desposarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desposardes infinitive plural second-person
- desposarem infinitive plural third-person
- desposando gerund
- desposados masculine participle past
- desposada feminine participle past
- desposadas feminine participle past
- desposas indicative present second-person
- desposa indicative present singular
- desposamos first-person indicative plural
- desposais indicative plural present
- desposam indicative plural present
- desposava first-person imperfect indicative
- desposavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desposar?
- Portugal /dɨʃ.puˈzaɾ/
- Portugal /dɨʃ.puˈza.ɾi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to desposar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desposar in Portuguese?
desposar appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).