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relativizar

Portuguese, verb

relativizar is spelled R-E-L-A-T-I-V-I-Z-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 82,742nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Relativizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to put into perspective, to consider something in relation to other things” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar relativo”.

What does relativizar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to put into perspective, to consider something in relation to other things

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. tornar relativo 2. negar carácter absoluto a (algo), considerando-o de valor apenas relativo, apresentando resultado com maiores valor e peso

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 relativizar

  • relativizo first-person present singular
  • relativizei first-person preterite singular
  • relativizado participle past
  • relativizares infinitive second-person singular
  • relativizarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • relativizardes infinitive plural second-person
  • relativizarem infinitive plural third-person
  • relativizando gerund
  • relativizados masculine participle past
  • relativizada feminine participle past
  • relativizadas feminine participle past
  • relativizas indicative present second-person
  • relativiza indicative present singular
  • relativizamos first-person indicative plural
  • relativizais indicative plural present
  • relativizam indicative plural present
  • relativizava first-person imperfect indicative
  • relativizavas imperfect indicative second-person

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

How common is relativizar in Portuguese?

relativizar appears about once in every 7 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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