emprestar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.pɾesˈta(ʁ)/
emprestar is spelled E-M-P-R-E-S-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,840th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emprestar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to lend; to loan (to give temporarily)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ceder por algum tempo sem qualquer ónus”.
What does emprestar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lend; to loan (to give temporarily)
- 2
Brazilto borrow (to obtain temporarily)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ceder por algum tempo sem qualquer ónus 2. ceder confiando dinheiro a alguém mediante o pagamento de juros
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 emprestar
- empresto first-person present singular
- emprestei first-person preterite singular
- emprestado participle past
- emprestares infinitive second-person singular
- emprestarmos first-person infinitive plural
- emprestardes infinitive plural second-person
- emprestarem infinitive plural third-person
- emprestando gerund
- emprestados masculine participle past
- emprestada feminine participle past
- emprestadas feminine participle past
- emprestas indicative present second-person
- empresta indicative present singular
- emprestamos first-person indicative plural
- emprestais indicative plural present
- emprestam indicative plural present
- emprestava first-person imperfect indicative
- emprestavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emprestar?
- Brazil /ẽ.pɾesˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.pɾesˈta(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.pɾesˈta(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 emprestar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is emprestar in Portuguese?
emprestar appears 4.7 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).