recrutar
Portuguese, verb/ʁe.kɾuˈta(ʁ)/
recrutar is spelled R-E-C-R-U-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,223rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Recrutar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to recruit (to enroll a new member into an organisation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “alistar para o serviço militar”.
What does recrutar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to recruit (to enroll a new member into an organisation)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. alistar para o serviço militar
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 recrutar
- recruto first-person present singular
- recrutei first-person preterite singular
- recrutado participle past
- recrutares infinitive second-person singular
- recrutarmos first-person infinitive plural
- recrutardes infinitive plural second-person
- recrutarem infinitive plural third-person
- recrutando gerund
- recrutados masculine participle past
- recrutada feminine participle past
- recrutadas feminine participle past
- recrutas indicative present second-person
- recruta indicative present singular
- recrutamos first-person indicative plural
- recrutais indicative plural present
- recrutam indicative plural present
- recrutava first-person imperfect indicative
- recrutavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce recrutar?
- Brazil /ʁe.kɾuˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [he.kɾuˈta(h)]
- /ʁe.kɾuˈta(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 recrutar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is recrutar in Portuguese?
recrutar appears 3.0 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).