padecer
Portuguese, verb/pa.deˈse(ʁ)/
padecer is spelled P-A-D-E-C-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 76,181st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Padecer is a Portuguese verb meaning “to suffer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sofrer”.
What does padecer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to suffer
O cão padeceu de fome e sede.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sofrer
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 padecer
- padeço first-person present singular
- padeci first-person preterite singular
- padecido participle past
- c-ç alternation
- padeceres infinitive second-person singular
- padecermos first-person infinitive plural
- padecerdes infinitive plural second-person
- padecerem infinitive plural third-person
- padecendo gerund
- padecidos masculine participle past
- padecida feminine participle past
- padecidas feminine participle past
- padeces indicative present second-person
- padece indicative present singular
- padecemos first-person indicative plural
- padeceis indicative plural present
- padecem indicative plural present
- padecia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce padecer?
- Brazil /pa.deˈse(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pa.deˈse(h)]
- /pa.deˈse(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is padecer in Portuguese?
padecer appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).