orientar
Portuguese, verb/o.ɾi.ẽˈta(ʁ)/
orientar is spelled O-R-I-E-N-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,602nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Orientar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to guide, conduct” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “direcionar, colocar algo em uma posição determinada”.
What does orientar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to guide, conduct
- 2
to orient, orientate
- 3
to manage, oversee
- 4
Portugalinformalto get, to find
Orientaste um bom café?
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. direcionar, colocar algo em uma posição determinada 2. informar, dizer alguém algo que se deseja saber 3. comandar, guiar, ordenar 4. guiar, localizar
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 orientar
- oriento first-person present singular
- orientei first-person preterite singular
- orientado participle past
- orientares infinitive second-person singular
- orientarmos first-person infinitive plural
- orientardes infinitive plural second-person
- orientarem infinitive plural third-person
- orientando gerund
- orientados masculine participle past
- orientada feminine participle past
- orientadas feminine participle past
- orientas indicative present second-person
- orienta indicative present singular
- orientamos first-person indicative plural
- orientais indicative plural present
- orientam indicative plural present
- orientava first-person imperfect indicative
- orientavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce orientar?
- Brazil /o.ɾi.ẽˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [o.ɾi.ẽˈta(h)]
- Brazil /o.ɾjẽˈta(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 orientar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is orientar in Portuguese?
orientar appears 5.4 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).