imitar
Portuguese, verb/i.miˈta(ʁ)/
imitar is spelled I-M-I-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,620th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to imitate, mimic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer exatamente o que faz uma pessoa ou animal”.
What does imitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to imitate, mimic
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer exatamente o que faz uma pessoa ou animal 2. reproduzir à semelhança de 3. arremedar 4. repetir
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 imitar
- imito first-person present singular
- imitei first-person preterite singular
- imitado participle past
- imitares infinitive second-person singular
- imitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- imitardes infinitive plural second-person
- imitarem infinitive plural third-person
- imitando gerund
- imitados masculine participle past
- imitada feminine participle past
- imitadas feminine participle past
- imitas indicative present second-person
- imita indicative present singular
- imitamos first-person indicative plural
- imitais indicative plural present
- imitam indicative plural present
- imitava first-person imperfect indicative
- imitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce imitar?
- Brazil /i.miˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [i.miˈta(h)]
- /i.miˈta(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 imitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is imitar in Portuguese?
imitar appears 4.8 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).