adentrar

Portuguese

Etymology

From adentro +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.dẽˈtɾa(ʁ)/ [a.dẽˈtɾa(h)]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /a.dẽˈtɾa(ɾ)/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /a.dẽˈtɾa(ʁ)/ [a.dẽˈtɾa(χ)]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.dẽˈtɾa(ɻ)/
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.dẽˈtɾaɾ/ [ɐ.ðẽˈtɾaɾ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.dẽˈtɾa.ɾi/ [ɐ.ðẽˈtɾa.ɾi]

  • Hyphenation: a‧den‧trar

Verb

adentrar (first-person singular present adentro, first-person singular preterite adentrei, past participle adentrado)

  1. to get into, to go into
  2. (transitive) to push (violently) into
  3. (figurative, reflexive) to concentrate, to meditate

Conjugation

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Further reading

Spanish

Verb

adentrar

  1. only used in se ... adentrar, syntactic variant of adentrarse