reconfortar
Portuguese, verb/ʁe.kõ.foʁˈta(ʁ)/
reconfortar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to comfort (relieve the distress or suffering of)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “confortar muito; dar novo alento; revigorar”.
What does reconfortar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to comfort (relieve the distress or suffering of)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. confortar muito; dar novo alento; revigorar
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 reconfortar
- reconforto first-person present singular
- reconfortei first-person preterite singular
- reconfortado participle past
- reconfortares infinitive second-person singular
- reconfortarmos first-person infinitive plural
- reconfortardes infinitive plural second-person
- reconfortarem infinitive plural third-person
- reconfortando gerund
- reconfortados masculine participle past
- reconfortada feminine participle past
- reconfortadas feminine participle past
- reconfortas indicative present second-person
- reconforta indicative present singular
- reconfortamos first-person indicative plural
- reconfortais indicative plural present
- reconfortam indicative plural present
- reconfortava first-person imperfect indicative
- reconfortavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce reconfortar?
- Brazil /ʁe.kõ.foʁˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [he.kõ.fohˈta(h)]
- /ʁe.kõ.foɾˈta(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 reconfortar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is reconfortar in Portuguese?
reconfortar appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).