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ripostar

Portuguese, verb/ʁi.posˈta(ʁ)/

ripostar is spelled R-I-P-O-S-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese, the 157,828th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ripostar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to riposte” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does ripostar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to riposte

  2. 2

    to retort, to riposte

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

Forms of ripostar

  • riposto first-person present singular
  • ripostei first-person preterite singular
  • ripostado participle past
  • ripostares infinitive second-person singular
  • ripostarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • ripostardes infinitive plural second-person
  • ripostarem infinitive plural third-person
  • ripostando gerund
  • ripostados masculine participle past
  • ripostada feminine participle past
  • ripostadas feminine participle past
  • ripostas indicative present second-person
  • riposta indicative present singular
  • ripostamos first-person indicative plural
  • ripostais indicative plural present
  • ripostam indicative plural present
  • ripostava first-person imperfect indicative
  • ripostavas imperfect indicative second-person

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

How do you pronounce ripostar?

  • Brazil /ʁi.posˈta(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [hi.posˈta(h)]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is ripostar in Portuguese?

ripostar appears about once in every 30 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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