hesitar
Portuguese, verb/e.ziˈta(ʁ)/
hesitar is spelled H-E-S-I-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 30,037th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hesitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hesitate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estar indeciso”.
What does hesitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hesitate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. estar indeciso 2. mostrar receio 3. duvidar
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 hesitar
- hesito first-person present singular
- hesitei first-person preterite singular
- hesitado participle past
- hesitares infinitive second-person singular
- hesitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- hesitardes infinitive plural second-person
- hesitarem infinitive plural third-person
- hesitando gerund
- hesitados masculine participle past
- hesitada feminine participle past
- hesitadas feminine participle past
- hesitas indicative present second-person
- hesita indicative present singular
- hesitamos first-person indicative plural
- hesitais indicative plural present
- hesitam indicative plural present
- hesitava first-person imperfect indicative
- hesitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hesitar?
- Brazil /e.ziˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [e.ziˈta(h)]
- /e.ziˈta(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 hesitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hesitar in Portuguese?
hesitar appears 1.2 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).