fomentar
Portuguese, verb/fo.mẽˈta(ʁ)/
fomentar is spelled F-O-M-E-N-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 5.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,403rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fomentar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to foment (to incite or cause)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ajudar o desenvolvimento; induzir para o crescimento”.
What does fomentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to foment (to incite or cause)
- 2
to stimulate or promote
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ajudar o desenvolvimento; induzir para o crescimento
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 fomentar
- fomento first-person present singular
- fomentei first-person preterite singular
- fomentado participle past
- fomentares infinitive second-person singular
- fomentarmos first-person infinitive plural
- fomentardes infinitive plural second-person
- fomentarem infinitive plural third-person
- fomentando gerund
- fomentados masculine participle past
- fomentada feminine participle past
- fomentadas feminine participle past
- fomentas indicative present second-person
- fomenta indicative present singular
- fomentamos first-person indicative plural
- fomentais indicative plural present
- fomentam indicative plural present
- fomentava first-person imperfect indicative
- fomentavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fomentar?
- Brazil /fo.mẽˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fo.mẽˈta(h)]
- /fo.mẽˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fomentar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fomentar in Portuguese?
fomentar appears 5.5 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).