enterrar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.teˈʁa(ʁ)/
enterrar is spelled E-N-T-E-R-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears 4.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,678th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enterrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to bury, to inter, to entomb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “colocar debaixo da terra”.
What does enterrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bury, to inter, to entomb
- 2
to dunk
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. colocar debaixo da terra 2. fazer passar a bola pelo aro com violência
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 enterrar
- enterro first-person present singular
- enterrei first-person preterite singular
- enterrado participle past
- enterrares infinitive second-person singular
- enterrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- enterrardes infinitive plural second-person
- enterrarem infinitive plural third-person
- enterrando gerund
- enterrados masculine participle past
- enterrada feminine participle past
- enterradas feminine participle past
- enterras indicative present second-person
- enterra indicative present singular
- enterramos first-person indicative plural
- enterrais indicative plural present
- enterram indicative plural present
- enterrava first-person imperfect indicative
- enterravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enterrar?
- Brazil /ẽ.teˈʁa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.teˈha(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.teˈʁa(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 enterrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enterrar in Portuguese?
enterrar appears 4.3 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).