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resumir

Portuguese, verb/ʁe.zuˈmi(ʁ)/

resumir is spelled R-E-S-U-M-I-R (7 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,792nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Resumir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to summarize (to prepare a summary)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “resumar”.

What does resumir mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to summarize (to prepare a summary)

  2. 2

    to show only the essential elements of something

  3. 3

    to recapitulate; to review

  4. 4

    to diminish (to make smaller)

  5. 5

    to mostly destroy; to leave only remains of something

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. resumar 2. dizer em poucas palavras, pôr em resumo 3. limitar-se

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 resumir

  • resumo first-person present singular
  • resumi first-person preterite singular
  • resumido participle past
  • resumires infinitive second-person singular
  • resumirmos first-person infinitive plural
  • resumirdes infinitive plural second-person
  • resumirem infinitive plural third-person
  • resumindo gerund
  • resumidos masculine participle past
  • resumida feminine participle past
  • resumidas feminine participle past
  • resumes indicative present second-person
  • resume indicative present singular
  • resumimos first-person indicative plural
  • resumis indicative plural present
  • resumem indicative plural present
  • resumia first-person imperfect indicative
  • resumias imperfect indicative second-person

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

How do you pronounce resumir?

  • Brazil /ʁe.zuˈmi(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [he.zuˈmi(h)]
  • /ʁe.zuˈmi(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 resumir

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is resumir in Portuguese?

resumir appears 3.8 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).

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