pressionar
Portuguese, verb/pɾe.si.oˈna(ʁ)/
pressionar is spelled P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N-A-R (10 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,736th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pressionar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to press (apply pressure)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer pressão”.
What does pressionar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to press (apply pressure)
- 2
to click a button
- 3
to press; to impel; to urge strongly
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer pressão
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 pressionar
- pressiono first-person present singular
- pressionei first-person preterite singular
- pressionado participle past
- pressionares infinitive second-person singular
- pressionarmos first-person infinitive plural
- pressionardes infinitive plural second-person
- pressionarem infinitive plural third-person
- pressionando gerund
- pressionados masculine participle past
- pressionada feminine participle past
- pressionadas feminine participle past
- pressionas indicative present second-person
- pressiona indicative present singular
- pressionamos first-person indicative plural
- pressionais indicative plural present
- pressionam indicative plural present
- pressionava first-person imperfect indicative
- pressionavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pressionar?
- Brazil /pɾe.si.oˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pɾe.si.oˈna(h)]
- Brazil /pɾe.sjoˈna(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pressionar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pressionar in Portuguese?
pressionar appears 7.9 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).