naturalizar
Portuguese, verb/na.tu.ɾa.liˈza(ʁ)/
naturalizar is spelled N-A-T-U-R-A-L-I-Z-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 70,861st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Naturalizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to naturalize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “conceder (a um estrangeiro) os direitos de cidadão de um país”.
What does naturalizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to naturalize
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. conceder (a um estrangeiro) os direitos de cidadão de um país 2. (naturalizar-se) tornar-se [cidadão] de um país estrangeiro 3. tornar nacional; nacionalizar
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 naturalizar
- naturalizo first-person present singular
- naturalizei first-person preterite singular
- naturalizado participle past
- naturalizares infinitive second-person singular
- naturalizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- naturalizardes infinitive plural second-person
- naturalizarem infinitive plural third-person
- naturalizando gerund
- naturalizados masculine participle past
- naturalizada feminine participle past
- naturalizadas feminine participle past
- naturalizas indicative present second-person
- naturaliza indicative present singular
- naturalizamos first-person indicative plural
- naturalizais indicative plural present
- naturalizam indicative plural present
- naturalizava first-person imperfect indicative
- naturalizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce naturalizar?
- Brazil /na.tu.ɾa.liˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [na.tu.ɾa.liˈza(h)]
- /na.tu.ɾa.liˈza(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 naturalizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is naturalizar in Portuguese?
naturalizar appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).