mentir
Portuguese, verb/mẽˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/
mentir is spelled M-E-N-T-I-R (6 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,969th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mentir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to lie (to affirm as true what is known to be false, or to deny what is known to be true)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dizer que é verdadeiro o que se sabe ser falso”.
What does mentir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lie (to affirm as true what is known to be false, or to deny what is known to be true)
- 2
to deceive, to lie
- 3
to fail
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dizer que é verdadeiro o que se sabe ser falso 2. negar o que se sabe ser verdade 3. enganar
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 mentir
- minto first-person present singular
- mente present singular third-person
- menti first-person preterite singular
- mentido participle past
- i-e alternation
- mentires infinitive second-person singular
- mentirmos first-person infinitive plural
- mentirdes infinitive plural second-person
- mentirem infinitive plural third-person
- mentindo gerund
- mentidos masculine participle past
- mentida feminine participle past
- mentidas feminine participle past
- mentes indicative present second-person
- mentimos first-person indicative plural
- mentis indicative plural present
- mentem indicative plural present
- mentia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mentir?
- Brazil /mẽˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [mẽˈt͡ʃi(h)]
- Brazil /mĩˈt͡ʃi(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 mentir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mentir in Portuguese?
mentir appears 21 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).