sublevar
Portuguese, verb/su.bi.leˈva(ʁ)/
sublevar is spelled S-U-B-L-E-V-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese, the 189,447th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sublevar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to provoke into rebellion; to revolt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “revoltar”.
What does sublevar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to provoke into rebellion; to revolt
- 2
to raise, to lift tobring or take upwards
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. revoltar 2. amotinar
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 sublevar
- sublevo first-person present singular
- sublevei first-person preterite singular
- sublevado participle past
- sublevares infinitive second-person singular
- sublevarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sublevardes infinitive plural second-person
- sublevarem infinitive plural third-person
- sublevando gerund
- sublevados masculine participle past
- sublevada feminine participle past
- sublevadas feminine participle past
- sublevas indicative present second-person
- subleva indicative present singular
- sublevamos first-person indicative plural
- sublevais indicative plural present
- sublevam indicative plural present
- sublevava first-person imperfect indicative
- sublevavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sublevar?
- Brazil /su.bi.leˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [su.bi.leˈva(h)]
- Brazil /su.bleˈva(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sublevar in Portuguese?
sublevar appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).