perpetrar
Portuguese, verb/peʁ.peˈtɾa(ʁ)/
perpetrar is spelled P-E-R-P-E-T-R-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese, the 113,611th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Perpetrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to perpetrate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “perfazer”.
What does perpetrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to perpetrate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. perfazer 2. realizar 3. cometer, praticar (ato condenável)
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 perpetrar
- perpetro first-person present singular
- perpetrei first-person preterite singular
- perpetrado participle past
- perpetrares infinitive second-person singular
- perpetrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- perpetrardes infinitive plural second-person
- perpetrarem infinitive plural third-person
- perpetrando gerund
- perpetrados masculine participle past
- perpetrada feminine participle past
- perpetradas feminine participle past
- perpetras indicative present second-person
- perpetra indicative present singular
- perpetramos first-person indicative plural
- perpetrais indicative plural present
- perpetram indicative plural present
- perpetrava first-person imperfect indicative
- perpetravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce perpetrar?
- Brazil /peʁ.peˈtɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [peh.peˈtɾa(h)]
- /peɾ.peˈtɾa(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 perpetrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is perpetrar in Portuguese?
perpetrar appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).