engendrar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.ʒẽˈdɾa(ʁ)/
engendrar is spelled E-N-G-E-N-D-R-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 79,437th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Engendrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to engender” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer nascer, criar em si, dentro de si”.
What does engendrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to engender
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer nascer, criar em si, dentro de si
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 engendrar
- engendro first-person present singular
- engendrei first-person preterite singular
- engendrado participle past
- engendrares infinitive second-person singular
- engendrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- engendrardes infinitive plural second-person
- engendrarem infinitive plural third-person
- engendrando gerund
- engendrados masculine participle past
- engendrada feminine participle past
- engendradas feminine participle past
- engendras indicative present second-person
- engendra indicative present singular
- engendramos first-person indicative plural
- engendrais indicative plural present
- engendram indicative plural present
- engendrava first-person imperfect indicative
- engendravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce engendrar?
- Brazil /ẽ.ʒẽˈdɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.ʒẽˈdɾa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.ʒẽˈdɾa(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 engendrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is engendrar in Portuguese?
engendrar appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).