encorajar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.ko.ɾaˈʒa(ʁ)/
encorajar is spelled E-N-C-O-R-A-J-A-R (9 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,722nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encorajar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to encourage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “incutir coragem a”.
What does encorajar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to encourage
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. incutir coragem a 2. animar 3. estimular
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 encorajar
- encorajo first-person present singular
- encorajei first-person preterite singular
- encorajado participle past
- encorajares infinitive second-person singular
- encorajarmos first-person infinitive plural
- encorajardes infinitive plural second-person
- encorajarem infinitive plural third-person
- encorajando gerund
- encorajados masculine participle past
- encorajada feminine participle past
- encorajadas feminine participle past
- encorajas indicative present second-person
- encoraja indicative present singular
- encorajamos first-person indicative plural
- encorajais indicative plural present
- encorajam indicative plural present
- encorajava first-person imperfect indicative
- encorajavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encorajar?
- Brazil /ẽ.ko.ɾaˈʒa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.ko.ɾaˈʒa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.ko.ɾaˈʒa(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 encorajar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encorajar in Portuguese?
encorajar appears 2.9 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).