identificar
Portuguese, verb/i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ʁ)/
identificar is spelled I-D-E-N-T-I-F-I-C-A-R (11 letters) and appears 30 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,999th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Identificar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to identify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estabelecer a identidade de”.
What does identificar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to identify
- 2
to recognize
- 3
to relate (to identify with; to understand)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. estabelecer a identidade de 2. tornar idêntico a
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 identificar
- identifico first-person present singular
- identifiquei first-person preterite singular
- identificado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- identificares infinitive second-person singular
- identificarmos first-person infinitive plural
- identificardes infinitive plural second-person
- identificarem infinitive plural third-person
- identificando gerund
- identificados masculine participle past
- identificada feminine participle past
- identificadas feminine participle past
- identificas indicative present second-person
- identifica indicative present singular
- identificamos first-person indicative plural
- identificais indicative plural present
- identificam indicative plural present
- identificava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce identificar?
- Brazil /i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(h)]
- /i.dẽ.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 identificar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is identificar in Portuguese?
identificar appears 30 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).