predominar
Portuguese, verb/pɾe.do.miˈna(ʁ)/
predominar is spelled P-R-E-D-O-M-I-N-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 64,064th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Predominar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to predominate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ser superior em número, força, poder ou autoridade”.
What does predominar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to predominate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ser superior em número, força, poder ou autoridade
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 predominar
- predomino first-person present singular
- predominei first-person preterite singular
- predominado participle past
- predominares infinitive second-person singular
- predominarmos first-person infinitive plural
- predominardes infinitive plural second-person
- predominarem infinitive plural third-person
- predominando gerund
- predominados masculine participle past
- predominada feminine participle past
- predominadas feminine participle past
- predominas indicative present second-person
- predomina indicative present singular
- predominamos first-person indicative plural
- predominais indicative plural present
- predominam indicative plural present
- predominava first-person imperfect indicative
- predominavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce predominar?
- Brazil /pɾe.do.miˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pɾe.do.miˈna(h)]
- /pɾe.do.miˈna(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 predominar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is predominar in Portuguese?
predominar 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).