dificultar
Portuguese, verb/d͡ʒi.fi.kuwˈta(ʁ)/
dificultar is spelled D-I-F-I-C-U-L-T-A-R (10 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19,354th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dificultar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hinder (to make a task difficult)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr dificuldades a”.
What does dificultar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hinder (to make a task difficult)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr dificuldades a 2. não facilitar 3. embaraçar 4. complicar
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 dificultar
- dificulto first-person present singular
- dificultei first-person preterite singular
- dificultado participle past
- dificultares infinitive second-person singular
- dificultarmos first-person infinitive plural
- dificultardes infinitive plural second-person
- dificultarem infinitive plural third-person
- dificultando gerund
- dificultados masculine participle past
- dificultada feminine participle past
- dificultadas feminine participle past
- dificultas indicative present second-person
- dificulta indicative present singular
- dificultamos first-person indicative plural
- dificultais indicative plural present
- dificultam indicative plural present
- dificultava first-person imperfect indicative
- dificultavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dificultar?
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.fi.kuwˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [d͡ʒi.fi.kuʊ̯ˈta(h)]
- /d͡ʒi.fi.kuwˈta(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 dificultar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dificultar in Portuguese?
dificultar appears 2.5 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).