suster
Portuguese, verb/susˈte(ʁ)/
suster is spelled S-U-S-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 66,070th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Suster is a Portuguese verb meaning “to support (to keep from falling)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “segurar para que não caia”.
What does suster mean in English?
verb
- 1
to support (to keep from falling)
- 2
to sustain (to provide for or nourish something)
- 3
to detain (to keep (someone) from proceeding)
- 4
to contain; to enclose
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. segurar para que não caia 2. sustentar 3. amparar
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 suster
- sustenho first-person present singular
- sustive first-person preterite singular
- sustido participle past
- susteres infinitive second-person singular
- sustermos first-person infinitive plural
- susterdes infinitive plural second-person
- susterem infinitive plural third-person
- sustendo gerund
- sustidos masculine participle past
- sustida feminine participle past
- sustidas feminine participle past
- susténs indicative present second-person
- sustém indicative present singular
- sustemos first-person indicative plural
- sustendes indicative plural present
- sustêm indicative plural present
- sustinha first-person imperfect indicative
- sustinhas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce suster?
- Brazil /susˈte(ʁ)/
- Brazil [susˈte(h)]
- /susˈte(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 suster
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is suster in Portuguese?
suster appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).