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hifenizar

Portuguese, verb/i.fe.niˈza(ʁ)/

hifenizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hyphenate (to join words or syllables with a hyphen)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “separar com hífen”.

What does hifenizar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to hyphenate (to join words or syllables with a hyphen)

  2. 2

    to hyphenate (to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. separar com hífen

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 hifenizar

  • hifenizo first-person present singular
  • hifenizei first-person preterite singular
  • hifenizado participle past
  • hifenizares infinitive second-person singular
  • hifenizarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • hifenizardes infinitive plural second-person
  • hifenizarem infinitive plural third-person
  • hifenizando gerund
  • hifenizados masculine participle past
  • hifenizada feminine participle past
  • hifenizadas feminine participle past
  • hifenizas indicative present second-person
  • hifeniza indicative present singular
  • hifenizamos first-person indicative plural
  • hifenizais indicative plural present
  • hifenizam indicative plural present
  • hifenizava first-person imperfect indicative
  • hifenizavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce hifenizar?

  • Brazil /i.fe.niˈza(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [i.fe.niˈza(h)]
  • /i.fe.niˈza(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 hifenizar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.