sobrepujar
Portuguese, verb/so.bɾe.puˈʒa(ʁ)/
sobrepujar is spelled S-O-B-R-E-P-U-J-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 77,804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sobrepujar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to surpass, surmount, exceed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular future subjunctive of sobrepujar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “superar”.
What does sobrepujar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to surpass, surmount, exceed
- 2
to overcome
- 3
first/third-person singular future subjunctive
- 4
first/third-person singular personal infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. superar 2. ultrapassar 3. destacar 4. ficar acima
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 sobrepujar
- sobrepujo first-person present singular
- sobrepujei first-person preterite singular
- sobrepujado participle past
- sobrepujares infinitive second-person singular
- sobrepujarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sobrepujardes infinitive plural second-person
- sobrepujarem infinitive plural third-person
- sobrepujando gerund
- sobrepujados masculine participle past
- sobrepujada feminine participle past
- sobrepujadas feminine participle past
- sobrepujas indicative present second-person
- sobrepuja indicative present singular
- sobrepujamos first-person indicative plural
- sobrepujais indicative plural present
- sobrepujam indicative plural present
- sobrepujava first-person imperfect indicative
- sobrepujavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sobrepujar?
- Brazil /so.bɾe.puˈʒa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [so.bɾe.puˈʒa(h)]
- /so.bɾe.puˈʒa(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 sobrepujar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sobrepujar in Portuguese?
sobrepujar appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).