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qualificar

Portuguese, verb/kwa.li.fiˈka(ʁ)/

qualificar is spelled Q-U-A-L-I-F-I-C-A-R (10 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19,354th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Qualificar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to qualify (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “classificar”.

What does qualificar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to qualify (all senses)

  2. 2

    to modify

  3. 3

    to classify

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. classificar 2. atribuir qualidades 3. tornar melhor

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 qualificar

  • qualifico first-person present singular
  • qualifiquei first-person preterite singular
  • qualificado participle past
  • c-qu alternation
  • qualificares infinitive second-person singular
  • qualificarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • qualificardes infinitive plural second-person
  • qualificarem infinitive plural third-person
  • qualificando gerund
  • qualificados masculine participle past
  • qualificada feminine participle past
  • qualificadas feminine participle past
  • qualificas indicative present second-person
  • qualifica indicative present singular
  • qualificamos first-person indicative plural
  • qualificais indicative plural present
  • qualificam indicative plural present
  • qualificava first-person imperfect indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce qualificar?

  • Brazil /kwa.li.fiˈka(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [kwa.li.fiˈka(h)]
  • /kwa.li.fiˈka(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 qualificar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is qualificar in Portuguese?

qualificar appears 2.5 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).

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