tentar
Portuguese, verb/tẽˈta(ʁ)/
tentar is spelled T-E-N-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears 151 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 645th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tentar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to try, go for, attempt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “experimentar”.
What does tentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to try, go for, attempt
- 2
to tease, tempt
- 3
to dare, challenge
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. experimentar 2. procurar 3. obter 4. arriscar
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 tentar
- tento first-person present singular
- tentei first-person preterite singular
- tentado participle past
- tentares infinitive second-person singular
- tentarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tentardes infinitive plural second-person
- tentarem infinitive plural third-person
- tentando gerund
- tentados masculine participle past
- tentada feminine participle past
- tentadas feminine participle past
- tentas indicative present second-person
- tenta indicative present singular
- tentamos first-person indicative plural
- tentais indicative plural present
- tentam indicative plural present
- tentava first-person imperfect indicative
- tentavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tentar?
- Brazil /tẽˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tẽˈta(h)]
- /tẽˈta(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 tentar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tentar in Portuguese?
tentar appears 151 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).