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devotar

Portuguese, verb/de.voˈta(ʁ)/

devotar is spelled D-E-V-O-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 64,064th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Devotar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to devote (commit something or someone to a certain matter)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does devotar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to devote (commit something or someone to a certain matter)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of devotar

  • devoto first-person present singular
  • devotei first-person preterite singular
  • devotado participle past
  • devotares infinitive second-person singular
  • devotarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • devotardes infinitive plural second-person
  • devotarem infinitive plural third-person
  • devotando gerund
  • devotados masculine participle past
  • devotada feminine participle past
  • devotadas feminine participle past
  • devotas indicative present second-person
  • devota indicative present singular
  • devotamos first-person indicative plural
  • devotais indicative plural present
  • devotam indicative plural present
  • devotava first-person imperfect indicative
  • devotavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce devotar?

  • Brazil /de.voˈta(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [de.voˈta(h)]
  • /de.voˈta(ɾ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to devotar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is devotar in Portuguese?

devotar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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