enervar
Portuguese, verb/e.neʁˈva(ʁ)/
enervar is spelled E-N-E-R-V-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 74,594th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enervar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to enervate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “retirar a força física ou moral a”.
What does enervar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to enervate
- 2
to irritate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. retirar a força física ou moral a 2. estimular os nervos a 3. irritar, tirar a paciência de alguém
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 enervar
- enervo first-person present singular
- enervei first-person preterite singular
- enervado participle past
- enervares infinitive second-person singular
- enervarmos first-person infinitive plural
- enervardes infinitive plural second-person
- enervarem infinitive plural third-person
- enervando gerund
- enervados masculine participle past
- enervada feminine participle past
- enervadas feminine participle past
- enervas indicative present second-person
- enerva indicative present singular
- enervamos first-person indicative plural
- enervais indicative plural present
- enervam indicative plural present
- enervava first-person imperfect indicative
- enervavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enervar?
- Brazil /e.neʁˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [e.neɦˈva(h)]
- /e.neɾˈva(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is enervar in Portuguese?
enervar appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).