tensionar
Portuguese, verb/tẽ.si.oˈna(ʁ)/
tensionar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to tense (to make or become tense)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aplicar tensão, estar tenso”.
What does tensionar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tense (to make or become tense)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. aplicar tensão, estar tenso
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 tensionar
- tensiono first-person present singular
- tensionei first-person preterite singular
- tensionado participle past
- tensionares infinitive second-person singular
- tensionarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tensionardes infinitive plural second-person
- tensionarem infinitive plural third-person
- tensionando gerund
- tensionados masculine participle past
- tensionada feminine participle past
- tensionadas feminine participle past
- tensionas indicative present second-person
- tensiona indicative present singular
- tensionamos first-person indicative plural
- tensionais indicative plural present
- tensionam indicative plural present
- tensionava first-person imperfect indicative
- tensionavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tensionar?
- 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 tensionar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tensionar in Portuguese?
tensionar appears about once in every 36 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).