melhorar
Portuguese, verb/me.ʎoˈɾa(ʁ)/
melhorar is spelled M-E-L-H-O-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears 65 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,494th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Melhorar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to improve, to ameliorate, to better” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar melhor, aperfeiçoar”.
What does melhorar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to improve, to ameliorate, to better
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar melhor, aperfeiçoar 2. restituir saúde a 3. curar-se de doença
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 melhorar
- melhoro first-person present singular
- melhorei first-person preterite singular
- melhorado participle past
- melhorares infinitive second-person singular
- melhorarmos first-person infinitive plural
- melhorardes infinitive plural second-person
- melhorarem infinitive plural third-person
- melhorando gerund
- melhorados masculine participle past
- melhorada feminine participle past
- melhoradas feminine participle past
- melhoras indicative present second-person
- melhora indicative present singular
- melhoramos first-person indicative plural
- melhorais indicative plural present
- melhoram indicative plural present
- melhorava first-person imperfect indicative
- melhoravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce melhorar?
- Brazil /me.ʎoˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [me.ʎoˈɾa(h)]
- /me.ʎoˈɾa(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 melhorar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is melhorar in Portuguese?
melhorar appears 65 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).