pacificar
Portuguese, verb/pa.si.fiˈka(ʁ)/
pacificar is spelled P-A-C-I-F-I-C-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 52,034th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pacificar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to pacify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr em paz”.
What does pacificar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pacify
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr em paz 2. apaziguar 3. tranquilizar
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 pacificar
- pacifico first-person present singular
- pacifiquei first-person preterite singular
- pacificado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- pacificares infinitive second-person singular
- pacificarmos first-person infinitive plural
- pacificardes infinitive plural second-person
- pacificarem infinitive plural third-person
- pacificando gerund
- pacificados masculine participle past
- pacificada feminine participle past
- pacificadas feminine participle past
- pacificas indicative present second-person
- pacifica indicative present singular
- pacificamos first-person indicative plural
- pacificais indicative plural present
- pacificam indicative plural present
- pacificava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pacificar?
- Brazil /pa.si.fiˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pa.si.fiˈka(h)]
- /pa.si.fiˈka(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 pacificar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pacificar in Portuguese?
pacificar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).