permitir
Portuguese, verb/peʁ.miˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/
permitir is spelled P-E-R-M-I-T-I-R (8 letters) and appears 46 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,045th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Permitir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to permit, to allow, to let” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “autorizar, consentir, dar permissão”.
What does permitir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to permit, to allow, to let
- 2
to permit (to give occasion to)
- 3
to tolerate
- 4
to permit (to take the liberty)
- 5
to dare
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. autorizar, consentir, dar permissão 2. dar ocasião, tolerar, não se opor 3. ousar, atrever-se 4. dar-se lugar ou azo
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 permitir
- permito first-person present singular
- permiti first-person preterite singular
- permitido participle past
- permitires infinitive second-person singular
- permitirmos first-person infinitive plural
- permitirdes infinitive plural second-person
- permitirem infinitive plural third-person
- permitindo gerund
- permitidos masculine participle past
- permitida feminine participle past
- permitidas feminine participle past
- permites indicative present second-person
- permite indicative present singular
- permitimos first-person indicative plural
- permitis indicative plural present
- permitem indicative plural present
- permitia first-person imperfect indicative
- permitias imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce permitir?
- Brazil /peʁ.miˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [peɦ.miˈt͡ʃi(h)]
- /peɾ.miˈt͡ʃi(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 permitir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is permitir in Portuguese?
permitir appears 46 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).