fortificar
Portuguese, verb/foʁ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ʁ)/
fortificar is spelled F-O-R-T-I-F-I-C-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 57,216th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fortificar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fortify; to strengthen (to make stronger)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar força a”.
What does fortificar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fortify; to strengthen (to make stronger)
- 2
to fortify (to build fortifications in or around a place)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar força a 2. robustecer 3. guarnecer de fortes
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 fortificar
- fortifico first-person present singular
- fortifiquei first-person preterite singular
- fortificado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- fortificares infinitive second-person singular
- fortificarmos first-person infinitive plural
- fortificardes infinitive plural second-person
- fortificarem infinitive plural third-person
- fortificando gerund
- fortificados masculine participle past
- fortificada feminine participle past
- fortificadas feminine participle past
- fortificas indicative present second-person
- fortifica indicative present singular
- fortificamos first-person indicative plural
- fortificais indicative plural present
- fortificam indicative plural present
- fortificava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fortificar?
- Brazil /foʁ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [foh.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(h)]
- /foɾ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(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 fortificar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fortificar in Portuguese?
fortificar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).