habitar
Portuguese, verb/a.biˈta(ʁ)/
habitar is spelled H-A-B-I-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 28,135th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Habitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to inhabit (to live or reside in some place)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “morar”.
What does habitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to inhabit (to live or reside in some place)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. morar 2. residir ou viver em 3. ocupar 4. estar domiciliado
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 habitar
- habito first-person present singular
- habitei first-person preterite singular
- habitado participle past
- habitares infinitive second-person singular
- habitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- habitardes infinitive plural second-person
- habitarem infinitive plural third-person
- habitando gerund
- habitados masculine participle past
- habitada feminine participle past
- habitadas feminine participle past
- habitas indicative present second-person
- habita indicative present singular
- habitamos first-person indicative plural
- habitais indicative plural present
- habitam indicative plural present
- habitava first-person imperfect indicative
- habitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce habitar?
- Brazil /a.biˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.biˈta(h)]
- /a.biˈta(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 habitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is habitar in Portuguese?
habitar appears 1.3 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).