sabotar
Portuguese, verb/sa.boˈta(ʁ)/
sabotar is spelled S-A-B-O-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 27,005th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sabotar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sabotage (to deliberately destroy something to prevent success)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “alterar criminosamente algo”.
What does sabotar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sabotage (to deliberately destroy something to prevent success)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. alterar criminosamente 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 sabotar
- saboto first-person present singular
- sabotei first-person preterite singular
- sabotado participle past
- sabotares infinitive second-person singular
- sabotarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sabotardes infinitive plural second-person
- sabotarem infinitive plural third-person
- sabotando gerund
- sabotados masculine participle past
- sabotada feminine participle past
- sabotadas feminine participle past
- sabotas indicative present second-person
- sabota indicative present singular
- sabotamos first-person indicative plural
- sabotais indicative plural present
- sabotam indicative plural present
- sabotava first-person imperfect indicative
- sabotavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sabotar?
- Brazil /sa.boˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [sa.boˈta(h)]
- /sa.boˈta(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 sabotar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sabotar in Portuguese?
sabotar appears 1.4 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).