ler
Portuguese, verb
ler is spelled L-E-R (3 letters) and appears 151 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 645th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ler is a Portuguese verb meaning “to read (to look at and interpret written information)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, LER is a different word: “acronym of lesão por esforço repetitivo”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “interpretar o que está escrito”.
What does ler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to read (to look at and interpret written information)
- 2
to read (to speak aloud written information)
- 3
to read (to fetch data from)
- 4
to read (to be interpreted or read in a particular way)
noun
- 1
feminineacronym of lesão por esforço repetitivo
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. interpretar o que está escrito 2. compreender 3. dizer em voz alta o que está escrito 4. ter conhecimento de uma língua para saber o que está escrito
abbreviation: 1. sigla para lesão por esforço repetitivo
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 ler
- leio first-person present singular
- li first-person preterite singular
- lido participle past
- leres infinitive second-person singular
- lermos first-person infinitive plural
- lerdes infinitive plural second-person
- lerem infinitive plural third-person
- lendo gerund
- lidos masculine participle past
- lida feminine participle past
- lidas feminine participle past
- lês indicative present second-person
- lê indicative present singular
- lemos first-person indicative plural
- ledes indicative plural present
- leem indicative plural present
- lêem indicative plural present
- lia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ler in Portuguese?
ler appears 151 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).