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impressionar

Portuguese, verb/ĩ.pɾe.si.oˈna(ʁ)/

impressionar is spelled I-M-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N-A-R (12 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,278th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Impressionar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to impress” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “causar impressão a”.

What does impressionar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to impress

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. causar impressão a 2. comover

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 impressionar

  • impressiono first-person present singular
  • impressionei first-person preterite singular
  • impressionado participle past
  • impressionares infinitive second-person singular
  • impressionarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • impressionardes infinitive plural second-person
  • impressionarem infinitive plural third-person
  • impressionando gerund
  • impressionados masculine participle past
  • impressionada feminine participle past
  • impressionadas feminine participle past
  • impressionas indicative present second-person
  • impressiona indicative present singular
  • impressionamos first-person indicative plural
  • impressionais indicative plural present
  • impressionam indicative plural present
  • impressionava first-person imperfect indicative
  • impressionavas imperfect indicative second-person

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

How do you pronounce impressionar?

  • Brazil /ĩ.pɾe.si.oˈna(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [ĩ.pɾe.si.oˈna(h)]
  • Brazil /ĩ.pɾe.sjoˈna(ʁ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to impressionar

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

How common is impressionar in Portuguese?

impressionar appears 3.6 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).

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