empoderar
Portuguese, verb
empoderar is spelled E-M-P-O-D-E-R-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 45,753rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empoderar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to empower” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar poder”.
What does empoderar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to empower
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar poder 2. aumentar a auto-estima
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 empoderar
- empodero first-person present singular
- empoderei first-person preterite singular
- empoderado participle past
- empoderares infinitive second-person singular
- empoderarmos first-person infinitive plural
- empoderardes infinitive plural second-person
- empoderarem infinitive plural third-person
- empoderando gerund
- empoderados masculine participle past
- empoderada feminine participle past
- empoderadas feminine participle past
- empoderas indicative present second-person
- empodera indicative present singular
- empoderamos first-person indicative plural
- empoderais indicative plural present
- empoderam indicative plural present
- empoderava first-person imperfect indicative
- empoderavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to empoderar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empoderar in Portuguese?
empoderar 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).