externar
Portuguese, verb/is.teʁˈna(ʁ)/
externar is spelled E-X-T-E-R-N-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 50,963rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Externar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to externalize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar externo, manifestar exteriormente; expor, exteriorizar”.
What does externar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to externalize
- 2
to open up, to vent
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar externo, manifestar exteriormente; expor, exteriorizar
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 externar
- externo first-person present singular
- externei first-person preterite singular
- externado participle past
- externares infinitive second-person singular
- externarmos first-person infinitive plural
- externardes infinitive plural second-person
- externarem infinitive plural third-person
- externando gerund
- externados masculine participle past
- externada feminine participle past
- externadas feminine participle past
- externas indicative present second-person
- externa indicative present singular
- externamos first-person indicative plural
- externais indicative plural present
- externam indicative plural present
- externava first-person imperfect indicative
- externavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce externar?
- Brazil /is.teʁˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.teɦˈna(h)]
- Brazil /es.teʁˈna(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is externar in Portuguese?
externar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).