empenar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.peˈna(ʁ)/
empenar is spelled E-M-P-E-N-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written Portuguese, the 213,834th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empenar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to warp (wood)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does empenar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to warp (wood)
- 2
to warp (of wood)
- 3
to deviate from a plumb line, to deflect
- 4
to twist, to become twisted
verb
- 1
to cover or adorn with feathers
- 2
to produce feathers (of a bird)
- 3
to become covered or adorned with feathers
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of empenar
- empeno first-person present singular
- empenei first-person preterite singular
- empenado participle past
- empenares infinitive second-person singular
- empenarmos first-person infinitive plural
- empenardes infinitive plural second-person
- empenarem infinitive plural third-person
- empenando gerund
- empenados masculine participle past
- empenada feminine participle past
- empenadas feminine participle past
- empenas indicative present second-person
- empena indicative present singular
- empenamos first-person indicative plural
- empenais indicative plural present
- empenam indicative plural present
- empenava first-person imperfect indicative
- empenavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empenar?
- Brazil /ẽ.peˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.peˈna(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.peˈna(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 empenar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empenar in Portuguese?
empenar appears about once in every 59 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).