significar
Portuguese, verb/si.ɡi.ni.fiˈka(ʁ)/
significar is spelled S-I-G-N-I-F-I-C-A-R (10 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,384th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Significar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to mean (to have a particular meaning)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ter a significação de”.
What does significar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mean (to have a particular meaning)
A palavra “livro” significa um conjunto de páginas ligadas.
- 2
to mean; to signify (to indicate a consequence)
Isso significa guerra.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ter a significação de 2. ter o sentido de 3. ser sinal de 4. ser guei
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 significar
- significo first-person present singular
- signifiquei first-person preterite singular
- significado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- significares infinitive second-person singular
- significarmos first-person infinitive plural
- significardes infinitive plural second-person
- significarem infinitive plural third-person
- significando gerund
- significados masculine participle past
- significada feminine participle past
- significadas feminine participle past
- significas indicative present second-person
- significa indicative present singular
- significamos first-person indicative plural
- significais indicative plural present
- significam indicative plural present
- significava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce significar?
- Brazil /si.ɡi.ni.fiˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [si.ɡi.ni.fiˈka(h)]
- Brazil /siɡ.ni.fiˈka(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to significar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is significar in Portuguese?
significar appears 10 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).