tender
Portuguese, verb
tender is spelled T-E-N-D-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 43,330th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tender is a Portuguese verb meaning “to tend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, tênder is a different word: “tender (fuel-carrying railroad car)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “transitivo”.
What does tender mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tend
- 2
to trend
verb
- 1
Brazilcolloquialclipping of entender
Tendeu o que eu disse?
noun
- 1
masculinetender (fuel-carrying railroad car)
- 2
masculinea type of industrially smoked ham
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. transitivo 2. estender 3. transitivo 4. inclinar-se
noun: 1. peça de pernil de suíno que se defumou de maneira industrializada
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 tender
- tendo first-person present singular
- tendi first-person preterite singular
- tendido participle past
- tenderes infinitive second-person singular
- tendermos first-person infinitive plural
- tenderdes infinitive plural second-person
- tenderem infinitive plural third-person
- tendendo gerund
- tendidos masculine participle past
- tendida feminine participle past
- tendidas feminine participle past
- tendes indicative present second-person
- tende indicative present singular
- tendemos first-person indicative plural
- tendeis indicative plural present
- tendem indicative plural present
- tendia first-person imperfect indicative
- tendias imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tender
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tender in Portuguese?
tender appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).