necessitar
Portuguese, verb/ne.se.siˈta(ʁ)/
necessitar is spelled N-E-C-E-S-S-I-T-A-R (10 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 23,592nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Necessitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to need” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ter necessidade de”.
What does necessitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to need
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ter necessidade de 2. precisar 3. reclamar 4. forçar
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 necessitar
- necessito first-person present singular
- necessitei first-person preterite singular
- necessitado participle past
- necessitares infinitive second-person singular
- necessitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- necessitardes infinitive plural second-person
- necessitarem infinitive plural third-person
- necessitando gerund
- necessitados masculine participle past
- necessitada feminine participle past
- necessitadas feminine participle past
- necessitas indicative present second-person
- necessita indicative present singular
- necessitamos first-person indicative plural
- necessitais indicative plural present
- necessitam indicative plural present
- necessitava first-person imperfect indicative
- necessitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce necessitar?
- Brazil /ne.se.siˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ne.se.siˈta(h)]
- /ne.se.siˈta(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 necessitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is necessitar in Portuguese?
necessitar appears 1.8 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).