dizer
Portuguese, verb/d͡ʒiˈze(ʁ)/
dizer is spelled D-I-Z-E-R (5 letters) and appears 479 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 197th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dizer is a Portuguese verb meaning “to speak; to pronounce; to utter; to say” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “exprimir por palavras”.
What does dizer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to speak; to pronounce; to utter; to say
Abra/e a boca e diga/diz aaaaa.
- 2
to tell; to say (to communicate information to someone)
- 3
to say (to indicate a given fact)
A placa diz que não podemos entrar.
- 4
to discern; to tell, to distinguish
- 5
to mean
Vamos à festa para comer... Digo, celebrar.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. dito; expressão
verb: 1. exprimir por palavras 2. expor; enunciar; proferir; discursar 3. ter conformidade com 4. falar
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 dizer
- digo first-person present singular
- disse first-person preterite singular
- dito participle past
- dizeres infinitive second-person singular
- dizermos first-person infinitive plural
- dizerdes infinitive plural second-person
- dizerem infinitive plural third-person
- dizendo gerund
- ditos masculine participle past
- dita feminine participle past
- ditas feminine participle past
- dizes indicative present second-person
- diz indicative present singular
- dizemos first-person indicative plural
- dizeis indicative plural present
- dizem indicative plural present
- dizia first-person imperfect indicative
- dizias imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dizer?
- Brazil /d͡ʒiˈze(ʁ)/
- Brazil [d͡ʒiˈze(h)]
- /d͡ʒiˈze(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 dizer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dizer in Portuguese?
dizer appears 479 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).