emendar
Portuguese, verb/i.mẽˈda(ʁ)/
emendar is spelled E-M-E-N-D-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 36,381st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emendar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to amend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “corrigir, melhorar”.
What does emendar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to amend
- 2
to join, splice
- 3
to correct
- 4
to modify
- 5
to add
- 6
to regenerate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. corrigir, melhorar 2. juntar as partes (de tecido, por exemplo) de modo a formar uma peça só
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 emendar
- emendo first-person present singular
- emendei first-person preterite singular
- emendado participle past
- emendares infinitive second-person singular
- emendarmos first-person infinitive plural
- emendardes infinitive plural second-person
- emendarem infinitive plural third-person
- emendando gerund
- emendados masculine participle past
- emendada feminine participle past
- emendadas feminine participle past
- emendas indicative present second-person
- emenda indicative present singular
- emendamos first-person indicative plural
- emendais indicative plural present
- emendam indicative plural present
- emendava first-person imperfect indicative
- emendavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emendar?
- Brazil /i.mẽˈda(ʁ)/
- Brazil [i.mẽˈda(h)]
- Brazil /e.mẽˈda(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 emendar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is emendar in Portuguese?
emendar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).