ensombrar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.sõˈbɾa(ʁ)/
ensombrar is spelled E-N-S-O-M-B-R-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese, the 211,654th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ensombrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to overshadow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer sombra a”.
What does ensombrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to overshadow
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer sombra a 2. assombrar
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 ensombrar
- ensombro first-person present singular
- ensombrei first-person preterite singular
- ensombrado participle past
- ensombrares infinitive second-person singular
- ensombrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- ensombrardes infinitive plural second-person
- ensombrarem infinitive plural third-person
- ensombrando gerund
- ensombrados masculine participle past
- ensombrada feminine participle past
- ensombradas feminine participle past
- ensombras indicative present second-person
- ensombra indicative present singular
- ensombramos first-person indicative plural
- ensombrais indicative plural present
- ensombram indicative plural present
- ensombrava first-person imperfect indicative
- ensombravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ensombrar?
- Brazil /ẽ.sõˈbɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.sõˈbɾa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.sõˈbɾa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ensombrar in Portuguese?
ensombrar appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).