sustentar
Portuguese, verb/sus.tẽˈta(ʁ)/
sustentar is spelled S-U-S-T-E-N-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,127th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sustentar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sustain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “transitivo”.
What does sustentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sustain
- 2
to support, underpin
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. transitivo 2. providenciar sustentação; amparar, suportar, aguentar, equilibrar, não deixar cair: 3. prover de sustento; alimentar, municiar, financiar: 4. defender opinião, ideia ou doutrina argumentando de forma convicta:
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 sustentar
- sustento first-person present singular
- sustentei first-person preterite singular
- sustentado participle past
- sustentares infinitive second-person singular
- sustentarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sustentardes infinitive plural second-person
- sustentarem infinitive plural third-person
- sustentando gerund
- sustentados masculine participle past
- sustentada feminine participle past
- sustentadas feminine participle past
- sustentas indicative present second-person
- sustenta indicative present singular
- sustentamos first-person indicative plural
- sustentais indicative plural present
- sustentam indicative plural present
- sustentava first-person imperfect indicative
- sustentavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sustentar?
- Brazil /sus.tẽˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [sus.tẽˈta(h)]
- /sus.tẽˈta(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 sustentar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sustentar in Portuguese?
sustentar 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).