sucatear
Portuguese, verb/su.ka.teˈa(ʁ)/
sucatear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to negotiate or renegotiate treating the trade item as scraps or trash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does sucatear mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilto negotiate or renegotiate treating the trade item as scraps or trash
- 2
Brazilto remove value of something. Refers mainly to institutions, widely used in the context of public organizations
O ministro é a favor de sucatear a universidade.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of sucatear
- sucateio first-person present singular
- sucateei first-person preterite singular
- sucateado participle past
- sucateares infinitive second-person singular
- sucatearmos first-person infinitive plural
- sucateardes infinitive plural second-person
- sucatearem infinitive plural third-person
- sucateando gerund
- sucateados masculine participle past
- sucateada feminine participle past
- sucateadas feminine participle past
- sucateias indicative present second-person
- sucateia indicative present singular
- sucateamos first-person indicative plural
- sucateais indicative plural present
- sucateiam indicative plural present
- sucateava first-person imperfect indicative
- sucateavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sucatear?
- Brazil /su.ka.teˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [su.ka.teˈa(h)]
- Brazil /su.ka.t͡ʃiˈa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sucatear in Portuguese?
sucatear appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).