dispensar
Portuguese, verb/d͡ʒis.pẽˈsa(ʁ)/
dispensar is spelled D-I-S-P-E-N-S-A-R (9 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19,080th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dispensar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to dispense” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “conceder dispensa a”.
What does dispensar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dispense
- 2
to dismiss
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. conceder dispensa a 2. desobrigar 3. emprestar
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 dispensar
- dispenso first-person present singular
- dispensei first-person preterite singular
- dispensado participle past
- dispensares infinitive second-person singular
- dispensarmos first-person infinitive plural
- dispensardes infinitive plural second-person
- dispensarem infinitive plural third-person
- dispensando gerund
- dispensados masculine participle past
- dispensada feminine participle past
- dispensadas feminine participle past
- dispensas indicative present second-person
- dispensa indicative present singular
- dispensamos first-person indicative plural
- dispensais indicative plural present
- dispensam indicative plural present
- dispensava first-person imperfect indicative
- dispensavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dispensar?
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.pẽˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [d͡ʒis.pẽˈsa(h)]
- /d͡ʒis.pẽˈsa(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 dispensar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dispensar in Portuguese?
dispensar appears 2.6 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).