ponderar
Portuguese, verb/põ.deˈɾa(ʁ)/
ponderar is spelled P-O-N-D-E-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 26,311th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ponderar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to weight (to assign weights to individual values)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “considerar, estimar, pesar”.
What does ponderar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to weight (to assign weights to individual values)
- 2
to ponder; to wonder (to think of deeply)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. considerar, estimar, pesar
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 ponderar
- pondero first-person present singular
- ponderei first-person preterite singular
- ponderado participle past
- ponderares infinitive second-person singular
- ponderarmos first-person infinitive plural
- ponderardes infinitive plural second-person
- ponderarem infinitive plural third-person
- ponderando gerund
- ponderados masculine participle past
- ponderada feminine participle past
- ponderadas feminine participle past
- ponderas indicative present second-person
- pondera indicative present singular
- ponderamos first-person indicative plural
- ponderais indicative plural present
- ponderam indicative plural present
- ponderava first-person imperfect indicative
- ponderavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ponderar?
- Brazil /põ.deˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [põ.deˈɾa(h)]
- /põ.deˈɾa(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 ponderar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ponderar in Portuguese?
ponderar appears 1.5 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).