formatar
Portuguese, verb/foʁ.maˈta(ʁ)/
formatar is spelled F-O-R-M-A-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 20,810th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Formatar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to format (create or edit the layout of a document)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “realizar formatação”.
What does formatar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to format (create or edit the layout of a document)
- 2
to format (to prepare a mass storage medium for initial use)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. realizar formatação 2. preparar algo segundo um dado formato 3. dispor dados de acordo com uma ordem, padrões de codificação, comprimento do disco etc 4. usar pela primeira vez um disco, deixando-o pronto para receber dados, descrevendo nele informações ou coordenadas de localização
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 formatar
- formato first-person present singular
- formatei first-person preterite singular
- formatado participle past
- formatares infinitive second-person singular
- formatarmos first-person infinitive plural
- formatardes infinitive plural second-person
- formatarem infinitive plural third-person
- formatando gerund
- formatados masculine participle past
- formatada feminine participle past
- formatadas feminine participle past
- formatas indicative present second-person
- formata indicative present singular
- formatamos first-person indicative plural
- formatais indicative plural present
- formatam indicative plural present
- formatava first-person imperfect indicative
- formatavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce formatar?
- Brazil /foʁ.maˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [foɦ.maˈta(h)]
- /foɾ.maˈta(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 formatar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is formatar in Portuguese?
formatar appears 2.2 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).