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tencionar

Portuguese, verb/tẽ.si.oˈna(ʁ)/

tencionar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to mean, intend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer tenção de”.

What does tencionar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to mean, intend

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. fazer tenção de 2. planear 3. projetar

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 tencionar

  • tenciono first-person present singular
  • tencionei first-person preterite singular
  • tencionado participle past
  • tencionares infinitive second-person singular
  • tencionarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • tencionardes infinitive plural second-person
  • tencionarem infinitive plural third-person
  • tencionando gerund
  • tencionados masculine participle past
  • tencionada feminine participle past
  • tencionadas feminine participle past
  • tencionas indicative present second-person
  • tenciona indicative present singular
  • tencionamos first-person indicative plural
  • tencionais indicative plural present
  • tencionam indicative plural present
  • tencionava first-person imperfect indicative
  • tencionavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce tencionar?

  • Brazil /tẽ.si.oˈna(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [tẽ.si.oˈna(h)]
  • Brazil /tẽ.sjoˈna(ʁ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to tencionar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is tencionar in Portuguese?

tencionar appears about once in every 26 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).