pender
Portuguese, verb/pẽˈde(ʁ)/
pender is spelled P-E-N-D-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 52,632nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pender is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hang or be suspended (from)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “(diz-se de coisas) estar suspendido ou inclinado”.
What does pender mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hang or be suspended (from)
- 2
to put or be inclined or drooping
- 3
to have a vocation, propensity (for)
- 4
to be subject to; depend on
- 5
to be favorable (to); lean (towards)
- 6
to be imminent (about)
- 7
to be willing
- 8
to wilt and sag
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (diz-se de coisas) estar suspendido ou inclinado 2. (diz-se de pessoas) estar inclinado a seguir uma linha de conduta
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 pender
- pendo first-person present singular
- pendi first-person preterite singular
- pendido participle past
- penderes infinitive second-person singular
- pendermos first-person infinitive plural
- penderdes infinitive plural second-person
- penderem infinitive plural third-person
- pendendo gerund
- pendidos masculine participle past
- pendida feminine participle past
- pendidas feminine participle past
- pendes indicative present second-person
- pende indicative present singular
- pendemos first-person indicative plural
- pendeis indicative plural present
- pendem indicative plural present
- pendia first-person imperfect indicative
- pendias imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pender?
- Brazil /pẽˈde(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pẽˈde(h)]
- /pẽˈde(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 pender
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pender in Portuguese?
pender appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).