embasar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.baˈza(ʁ)/
embasar is spelled E-M-B-A-S-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 46,230th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embasar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to build (a building’s) foundation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar base a”.
What does embasar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to build (a building’s) foundation
- 2
to base
Ele embasou a teoria nas suas observações.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar base a 2. fundamentar um argumento
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 embasar
- embaso first-person present singular
- embasei first-person preterite singular
- embasado participle past
- embasares infinitive second-person singular
- embasarmos first-person infinitive plural
- embasardes infinitive plural second-person
- embasarem infinitive plural third-person
- embasando gerund
- embasados masculine participle past
- embasada feminine participle past
- embasadas feminine participle past
- embasas indicative present second-person
- embasa indicative present singular
- embasamos first-person indicative plural
- embasais indicative plural present
- embasam indicative plural present
- embasava first-person imperfect indicative
- embasavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce embasar?
- Brazil /ẽ.baˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.baˈza(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.baˈza(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 embasar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is embasar in Portuguese?
embasar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).