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palestrar

Portuguese, verb/pa.lesˈtɾa(ʁ)/

palestrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to converse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “conceder ou manter palestra”.

What does palestrar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to converse

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. conceder ou manter palestra

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 palestrar

  • palestro first-person present singular
  • palestrei first-person preterite singular
  • palestrado participle past
  • palestrares infinitive second-person singular
  • palestrarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • palestrardes infinitive plural second-person
  • palestrarem infinitive plural third-person
  • palestrando gerund
  • palestrados masculine participle past
  • palestrada feminine participle past
  • palestradas feminine participle past
  • palestras indicative present second-person
  • palestra indicative present singular
  • palestramos first-person indicative plural
  • palestrais indicative plural present
  • palestram indicative plural present
  • palestrava first-person imperfect indicative
  • palestravas imperfect indicative second-person

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

How do you pronounce palestrar?

  • Brazil /pa.lesˈtɾa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [pa.lesˈtɾa(h)]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to palestrar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is palestrar in Portuguese?

palestrar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.

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