inquietar
Portuguese, verb/ĩ.ki.eˈta(ʁ)/
inquietar is spelled I-N-Q-U-I-E-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese, the 123,299th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Inquietar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to unsettle; to alarm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar inquieto; causar ansiedade”.
What does inquietar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unsettle; to alarm
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar inquieto; causar ansiedade
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 inquietar
- inquieto first-person present singular
- inquietei first-person preterite singular
- inquietado participle past
- inquietares infinitive second-person singular
- inquietarmos first-person infinitive plural
- inquietardes infinitive plural second-person
- inquietarem infinitive plural third-person
- inquietando gerund
- inquietados masculine participle past
- inquietada feminine participle past
- inquietadas feminine participle past
- inquietas indicative present second-person
- inquieta indicative present singular
- inquietamos first-person indicative plural
- inquietais indicative plural present
- inquietam indicative plural present
- inquietava first-person imperfect indicative
- inquietavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce inquietar?
- Brazil /ĩ.ki.eˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ĩ.ki.eˈta(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.kjeˈta(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 inquietar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is inquietar in Portuguese?
inquietar appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).