preservar
Portuguese, verb/pɾe.zeʁˈva(ʁ)/
preservar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to preserve” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “manter(-se) livre de algum mal, dano ou perigo futuro; resguardar(-se), defender(-se) cuidar(-se)”.
What does preservar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to preserve
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. manter(-se) livre de algum mal, dano ou perigo futuro; resguardar(-se), defender(-se) cuidar(-se)
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 preservar
- preservo first-person present singular
- preservei first-person preterite singular
- preservado participle past
- preservares infinitive second-person singular
- preservarmos first-person infinitive plural
- preservardes infinitive plural second-person
- preservarem infinitive plural third-person
- preservando gerund
- preservados masculine participle past
- preservada feminine participle past
- preservadas feminine participle past
- preservas indicative present second-person
- preserva indicative present singular
- preservamos first-person indicative plural
- preservais indicative plural present
- preservam indicative plural present
- preservava first-person imperfect indicative
- preservavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce preservar?
- Brazil /pɾe.zeʁˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pɾe.zeɦˈva(h)]
- Portugal /pɾɨ.zɨɾ.ˈvaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to preservar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is preservar in Portuguese?
preservar appears 16 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).