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tutear

Portuguese, verb/tu.teˈa(ʁ)/

tutear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to address someone informally, using the pronoun tu, to thou” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does tutear mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to address someone informally, using the pronoun tu, to thou

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of tutear

  • tuteio first-person present singular
  • tuteei first-person preterite singular
  • tuteado participle past
  • tuteares infinitive second-person singular
  • tutearmos first-person infinitive plural
  • tuteardes infinitive plural second-person
  • tutearem infinitive plural third-person
  • tuteando gerund
  • tuteados masculine participle past
  • tuteada feminine participle past
  • tuteadas feminine participle past
  • tuteias indicative present second-person
  • tuteia indicative present singular
  • tuteamos first-person indicative plural
  • tuteais indicative plural present
  • tuteiam indicative plural present
  • tuteava first-person imperfect indicative
  • tuteavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce tutear?

  • Brazil /tu.teˈa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [tu.teˈa(h)]
  • /tu.teˈa(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 tutear

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.