deteriorar
Portuguese, verb/de.te.ɾi.oˈɾa(ʁ)/
deteriorar is spelled D-E-T-E-R-I-O-R-A-R (10 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,895th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Deteriorar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to deteriorate, worsen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “piorar, degenerar, pôr em condição inferior”.
What does deteriorar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to deteriorate, worsen
- 2
to damage, spoil
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. piorar, degenerar, pôr em condição inferior
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 deteriorar
- deterioro first-person present singular
- deteriorei first-person preterite singular
- deteriorado participle past
- deteriorares infinitive second-person singular
- deteriorarmos first-person infinitive plural
- deteriorardes infinitive plural second-person
- deteriorarem infinitive plural third-person
- deteriorando gerund
- deteriorados masculine participle past
- deteriorada feminine participle past
- deterioradas feminine participle past
- deterioras indicative present second-person
- deteriora indicative present singular
- deterioramos first-person indicative plural
- deteriorais indicative plural present
- deterioram indicative plural present
- deteriorava first-person imperfect indicative
- deterioravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce deteriorar?
- Brazil /de.te.ɾi.oˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.te.ɾi.oˈɾa(h)]
- Brazil /de.te.ɾjoˈɾa(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 deteriorar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is deteriorar in Portuguese?
deteriorar appears 1.0 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).