tentá
Portuguese, verb
tentá is a Portuguese verb meaning “apocopic form of tentar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, tenta is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”.
What does tentá mean in English?
verb
- 1
apocopic form of tentar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. corrida de novilhos
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.
How common is tentá in Portuguese?
tentá appears 59 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).