tramitar
Portuguese, verb/tɾa.miˈta(ʁ)/
tramitar is spelled T-R-A-M-I-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 49,864th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tramitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to be processed; to follow the legal proceedings to obtain the result (e.g. approval or rejection) of a specific question, such as a law…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “seguir os trâmites legais”.
What does tramitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be processed; to follow the legal proceedings to obtain the result (e.g. approval or rejection) of a specific question, such as a law project
O projeto está tramitando no congresso.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. seguir os trâmites legais
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 tramitar
- tramito first-person present singular
- tramitei first-person preterite singular
- tramitado participle past
- tramitares infinitive second-person singular
- tramitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tramitardes infinitive plural second-person
- tramitarem infinitive plural third-person
- tramitando gerund
- tramitados masculine participle past
- tramitada feminine participle past
- tramitadas feminine participle past
- tramitas indicative present second-person
- tramita indicative present singular
- tramitamos first-person indicative plural
- tramitais indicative plural present
- tramitam indicative plural present
- tramitava first-person imperfect indicative
- tramitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tramitar?
- Brazil /tɾa.miˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tɾa.miˈta(h)]
- /tɾa.miˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tramitar in Portuguese?
tramitar 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).