ordenar
Portuguese, verb/oʁ.deˈna(ʁ)/
ordenar is spelled O-R-D-E-N-A-R (7 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,534th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ordenar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sort; to order (set in (any) order)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar ordens; mandar”.
What does ordenar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sort; to order (set in (any) order)
- 2
to order (issue a command)
- 3
to ordain (admit into the ministry of the Christian church)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar ordens; mandar 2. colocar na ordem; arrumar 3. receber ou dar o sacramento da ordem 4. fazer ser exibido em uma sequência conforme uma criterização
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 ordenar
- ordeno first-person present singular
- ordenei first-person preterite singular
- ordenado participle past
- ordenares infinitive second-person singular
- ordenarmos first-person infinitive plural
- ordenardes infinitive plural second-person
- ordenarem infinitive plural third-person
- ordenando gerund
- ordenados masculine participle past
- ordenada feminine participle past
- ordenadas feminine participle past
- ordenas indicative present second-person
- ordena indicative present singular
- ordenamos first-person indicative plural
- ordenais indicative plural present
- ordenam indicative plural present
- ordenava first-person imperfect indicative
- ordenavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ordenar?
- Brazil /oʁ.deˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [oɦ.deˈna(h)]
- /oɾ.deˈna(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 ordenar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ordenar in Portuguese?
ordenar appears 3.9 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).