encertar

From en- +‎ cert +‎ -ar. Compare Portuguese and Spanish acertar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ən.sərˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [en.seɾˈtaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

encertar (first-person singular present encerto, first-person singular preterite encertí, past participle encertat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. to get right, to do correctly
2. to guess

   Synonym: endevinar

3. to hit a target

• encert
• encertant
• encertat

• “encertar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “encertar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “encertar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “encertar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Alteration of encetar.

• Hyphenation: en‧cer‧tar

encertar (first-person singular present encerto, first-person singular preterite encertei, past participle encertado)

1. (Portugal, informal, regional) (transitive) to open, to start (a package)

   Synonym: encetar

   encertar um pacote de bolachas ― to start a pack of cookies

2. (Portugal, informal, regional) (transitive) to cut, to take a piece (of food)

   Synonym: encetar

   encertar um melão ― to cut open a melon

• enxertar

• “encertar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025