recolocar
Portuguese, verb/ʁe.ko.loˈka(ʁ)/
recolocar is spelled R-E-C-O-L-O-C-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 48,304th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Recolocar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to return (to put something back where it had been)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “colocar novamente no lugar ou posição original; repor”.
What does recolocar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to return (to put something back where it had been)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. colocar novamente no lugar ou posição original; repor
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 recolocar
- recoloco first-person present singular
- recoloquei first-person preterite singular
- recolocado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- recolocares infinitive second-person singular
- recolocarmos first-person infinitive plural
- recolocardes infinitive plural second-person
- recolocarem infinitive plural third-person
- recolocando gerund
- recolocados masculine participle past
- recolocada feminine participle past
- recolocadas feminine participle past
- recolocas indicative present second-person
- recoloca indicative present singular
- recolocamos first-person indicative plural
- recolocais indicative plural present
- recolocam indicative plural present
- recolocava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce recolocar?
- Brazil /ʁe.ko.loˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [he.ko.loˈka(h)]
- /ʁe.ko.loˈka(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is recolocar in Portuguese?
recolocar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).