empacotar

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Old Galician-Portuguese en-

Portuguese en-

Portuguese em-

Portuguese pacote

Portuguese -ar

Portuguese empacotar

From em- + pacote (“bundle”) + -ar.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful) /ẽ.pa.koˈta(ʁ)/ [ẽ.pa.koˈta(h)], /ĩ.pa.koˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pa.koˈta(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful) /ẽ.pa.koˈta(ʁ)/ [ẽ.pa.koˈta(h)], /ĩ.pa.koˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pa.koˈta(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): (careful) /ẽ.pa.koˈta(ɾ)/, /ĩ.pa.koˈta(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): (careful) /ẽ.pa.koˈta(ʁ)/ [ẽ.pa.koˈta(χ)], /ĩ.pa.koˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pa.koˈta(χ)]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): (careful) /ẽ.pa.koˈta(ɻ)/, /ĩ.pa.koˈta(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ẽ.pɐ.kuˈtaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ẽ.pɐ.kuˈtaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ẽ.pɐ.kuˈta.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: em‧pa‧co‧tar

Verb

empacotar (first-person singular present empacoto, first-person singular preterite empacotei, past participle empacotado)

1. (transitive) to pack or bundle
2. (intransitive, colloquial) to die

Conjugation

    Conjugation of empacotar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	empacotar
Personal	empacotar	empacotares	empacotar	empacotarmos	empacotardes	empacotarem
Gerund
	empacotando
Past participle
Masculine	empacotado			empacotados
Feminine	empacotada			empacotadas
Indicative
Present	empacoto	empacotas	empacota	empacotamos	empacotais	empacotam
Imperfect	empacotava	empacotavas	empacotava	empacotávamos	empacotáveis	empacotavam
Preterite	empacotei	empacotaste	empacotou	empacotamos1, empacotámos2	empacotastes	empacotaram
Pluperfect	empacotara	empacotaras	empacotara	empacotáramos	empacotáreis	empacotaram
Future	empacotarei	empacotarás	empacotará	empacotaremos	empacotareis	empacotarão
Conditional	empacotaria	empacotarias	empacotaria	empacotaríamos	empacotaríeis	empacotariam
Subjunctive
Present	empacote	empacotes	empacote	empacotemos	empacoteis	empacotem
Imperfect	empacotasse	empacotasses	empacotasse	empacotássemos	empacotásseis	empacotassem
Future	empacotar	empacotares	empacotar	empacotarmos	empacotardes	empacotarem
Imperative
Affirmative		empacota	empacote	empacotemos	empacotai	empacotem
Negative (não)		não empacotes	não empacote	não empacotemos	não empacoteis	não empacotem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Further reading

• “empacotar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “empacotar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026