encostar

Portuguese

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.kosˈta(ʁ)/ [ẽ.kosˈta(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.kosˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.kosˈta(h)]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.kosˈta(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.kosˈta(ɾ)/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.koʃˈta(ʁ)/ [ẽ.koʃˈta(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.koʃˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.koʃˈta(χ)]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.kosˈta(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.kosˈta(ɻ)/
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽ.kuʃˈtaɾ/
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽ.kuʃˈta.ɾi/

Verb

encostar (first-person singular present encosto, first-person singular preterite encostei, past participle encostado)

  1. to support (physically)
  2. to touch
  3. (transitive) to close (a door) without locking it
  4. to scrounge off someone

Conjugation

Spanish

Verb

encostar

  1. only used in se ... encostar, syntactic variant of encostarse