emprenhar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.pɾẽˈɲa(ʁ)/
emprenhar is spelled E-M-P-R-E-N-H-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written Portuguese, the 151,527th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emprenhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to impregnate (to cause to become pregnant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “engravidar, nas fêmeas mamíferas, engendrar em si um ou vários seres novos”.
What does emprenhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to impregnate (to cause to become pregnant)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. engravidar, nas fêmeas mamíferas, engendrar em si um ou vários seres novos 2. deixar prenhe
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 emprenhar
- emprenho first-person present singular
- emprenhei first-person preterite singular
- emprenhado participle past
- emprenhares infinitive second-person singular
- emprenharmos first-person infinitive plural
- emprenhardes infinitive plural second-person
- emprenharem infinitive plural third-person
- emprenhando gerund
- emprenhados masculine participle past
- emprenhada feminine participle past
- emprenhadas feminine participle past
- emprenhas indicative present second-person
- emprenha indicative present singular
- emprenhamos first-person indicative plural
- emprenhais indicative plural present
- emprenham indicative plural present
- emprenhava first-person imperfect indicative
- emprenhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emprenhar?
- Brazil /ẽ.pɾẽˈɲa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.pɾẽˈj̃a(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.pɾẽˈɲa(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 emprenhar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is emprenhar in Portuguese?
emprenhar appears about once in every 27 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).