escutar
Portuguese, verb/is.kuˈta(ʁ)/
escutar is spelled E-S-C-U-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,459th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escutar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to listen to; to hear (to perceive sound)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “prestar atenção auditiva; dar ouvidos”.
What does escutar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to listen to; to hear (to perceive sound)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. prestar atenção auditiva; dar ouvidos 2. obedecer, seguir o que é ordenado 3. esperar com atenção algum som
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 escutar
- escuto first-person present singular
- escutei first-person preterite singular
- escutado participle past
- escutares infinitive second-person singular
- escutarmos first-person infinitive plural
- escutardes infinitive plural second-person
- escutarem infinitive plural third-person
- escutando gerund
- escutados masculine participle past
- escutada feminine participle past
- escutadas feminine participle past
- escutas indicative present second-person
- escuta indicative present singular
- escutamos first-person indicative plural
- escutais indicative plural present
- escutam indicative plural present
- escutava first-person imperfect indicative
- escutavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escutar?
- Brazil /is.kuˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.kuˈta(h)]
- Brazil /es.kuˈta(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 escutar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escutar in Portuguese?
escutar appears 19 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).