entregar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.tɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/
entregar is spelled E-N-T-R-E-G-A-R (8 letters) and appears 36 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,518th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entregar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to deliver (to transport something to a destination)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “transportar algo até o destinatário desejado”.
What does entregar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to deliver (to transport something to a destination)
O carteiro entregou-me uma carta de minha mãe.
- 2
to deliver; to hand over; to surrender (to relinquish control or possession of)
O general teve que entregar a cidade após meses de cerco.
- 3
informalto reveal (to show non-obvious information)
A vermelhidão do rosto entregava seu constrangimento.
- 4
slangto snitch (to); to grass; to inform on; to betray to (to report a criminal to the authorities)
Judas entregou Jesus aos romanos.
- 5
to surrender (to give oneself up to the authorities)
Um psicopata veio à delegacia para se entregar.
- 6
to incriminate oneself (to reveal negative information about oneself, especially accidentally)
O suspeito negava as acusações, mas os interrogadores fizeram-no se entregar.
- 7
to surrender; to submit (to give oneself up into the power of another)
- 8
to give away (to unintentionally reveal a secret)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. transportar algo até o destinatário desejado 2. dar a posse de algo ou a custódia de alguém 3. delatar; atraiçoar 4. dedicar-se inteiramente a algo
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 entregar
- entrego first-person present singular
- entreguei first-person preterite singular
- entregado participle past
- entregue participle past short-form
- g-gu alternation
- entregares infinitive second-person singular
- entregarmos first-person infinitive plural
- entregardes infinitive plural second-person
- entregarem infinitive plural third-person
- entregando gerund
- entregues masculine participle past
- entregados long-form masculine participle
- entregada feminine long-form participle
- entregadas feminine long-form participle
- entregas indicative present second-person
- entrega indicative present singular
- entregamos first-person indicative plural
- entregais indicative plural present
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce entregar?
- Brazil /ẽ.tɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.tɾeˈɡa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.tɾeˈɡa(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 entregar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is entregar in Portuguese?
entregar appears 36 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).