externalizar
Portuguese, verb/is.teʁ.na.liˈza(ʁ)/
externalizar is spelled E-X-T-E-R-N-A-L-I-Z-A-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese, the 139,586th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Externalizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to outsource” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr a cargo de agente externo a função de prestar ou executar serviço”.
What does externalizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to outsource
- 2
to externalize
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr a cargo de agente externo a função de prestar ou executar serviço
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 externalizar
- externalizo first-person present singular
- externalizei first-person preterite singular
- externalizado participle past
- externalizares infinitive second-person singular
- externalizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- externalizardes infinitive plural second-person
- externalizarem infinitive plural third-person
- externalizando gerund
- externalizados masculine participle past
- externalizada feminine participle past
- externalizadas feminine participle past
- externalizas indicative present second-person
- externaliza indicative present singular
- externalizamos first-person indicative plural
- externalizais indicative plural present
- externalizam indicative plural present
- externalizava first-person imperfect indicative
- externalizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce externalizar?
- Brazil /is.teʁ.na.liˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.teɦ.na.liˈza(h)]
- Brazil /es.teʁ.na.liˈza(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 externalizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is externalizar in Portuguese?
externalizar appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).