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objectar

Portuguese, verb

objectar is a Portuguese verb meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of objetar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “objetar”.

What does objectar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of objetar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. objetar

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 objectar

  • objecto first-person present singular
  • objectei first-person preterite singular
  • objectado participle past
  • objectares infinitive second-person singular
  • objectarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • objectardes infinitive plural second-person
  • objectarem infinitive plural third-person
  • objectando gerund
  • objectados masculine participle past
  • objectada feminine participle past
  • objectadas feminine participle past
  • objectas indicative present second-person
  • objecta indicative present singular
  • objectamos first-person indicative plural
  • objectais indicative plural present
  • objectam indicative plural present
  • objectava first-person imperfect indicative
  • objectavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is objectar in Portuguese?

objectar appears about once in every 56 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).