encostar

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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  • (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)/
 

Verb

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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

Conjugation

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Spanish

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Verb

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encostar

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