esposar
Portuguese, verb/is.poˈza(ʁ)/
esposar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to espouse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tomar em casamento”.
What does esposar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to espouse
- 2
to unite in marriage
- 3
to marry
- 4
to plight
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tomar em casamento 2. prender-se vivamente a, adotar (ideias, opiniões)
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 esposar
- esposo first-person present singular
- esposei first-person preterite singular
- esposado participle past
- esposares infinitive second-person singular
- esposarmos first-person infinitive plural
- esposardes infinitive plural second-person
- esposarem infinitive plural third-person
- esposando gerund
- esposados masculine participle past
- esposada feminine participle past
- esposadas feminine participle past
- esposas indicative present second-person
- esposa indicative present singular
- esposamos first-person indicative plural
- esposais indicative plural present
- esposam indicative plural present
- esposava first-person imperfect indicative
- esposavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esposar?
- Brazil /is.poˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.poˈza(h)]
- Brazil /es.poˈza(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 esposar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is esposar in Portuguese?
esposar appears about once in every 60 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).