responder
Portuguese, verb/ʁes.põˈde(ʁ)/
responder is spelled R-E-S-P-O-N-D-E-R (9 letters) and appears 65 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,494th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Responder is a Portuguese verb meaning “to answer; to reply (to give a written or spoken response)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dizer ou escrever em resposta”.
What does responder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to answer; to reply (to give a written or spoken response)
- 2
to retort frequently
- 3
to correspond to (to be equivalent to)
- 4
to counterattack
- 5
to be responsible (for something)
- 6
to be a defendant
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dizer ou escrever em resposta 2. replicar, retorquir 3. revidar agressão física ou moral 4. ser o responsável por algo
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 responder
- respondo first-person present singular
- respondi first-person preterite singular
- respondido participle past
- responderes infinitive second-person singular
- respondermos first-person infinitive plural
- responderdes infinitive plural second-person
- responderem infinitive plural third-person
- respondendo gerund
- respondidos masculine participle past
- respondida feminine participle past
- respondidas feminine participle past
- respondes indicative present second-person
- responde indicative present singular
- respondemos first-person indicative plural
- respondeis indicative plural present
- respondem indicative plural present
- respondia first-person imperfect indicative
- respondias imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce responder?
- Brazil /ʁes.põˈde(ʁ)/
- Brazil [hes.põˈde(h)]
- /ʁes.põˈde(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 responder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is responder in Portuguese?
responder appears 65 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).