sucatear
Portuguese
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Brazil) IPA(key): /su.ka.teˈa(ʁ)/ [su.ka.teˈa(h)], /su.ka.t͡ʃiˈa(ʁ)/ [su.ka.t͡ʃɪˈa(h)], (faster pronunciation) /su.kaˈt͡ʃja(ʁ)/ [su.kaˈt͡ʃja(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /su.ka.teˈa(ɾ)/, /su.ka.t͡ʃiˈa(ɾ)/ [su.ka.t͡ʃɪˈa(ɾ)], (faster pronunciation) /su.kaˈt͡ʃja(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /su.ka.teˈa(ʁ)/ [su.ka.teˈa(χ)], /su.ka.t͡ʃiˈa(ʁ)/ [su.ka.t͡ʃɪˈa(χ)], (faster pronunciation) /su.kaˈt͡ʃja(ʁ)/ [su.kaˈt͡ʃja(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /su.ka.teˈa(ɻ)/
- Hyphenation: su‧ca‧te‧ar
Verb
editsucatear (first-person singular present sucateio, first-person singular preterite sucateei, past participle sucateado)
- (Brazil) to negotiate or renegotiate treating the trade item as scraps or trash
- (Brazil) to remove value of something. Refers mainly to institutions, widely used in the context of public organizations
- O ministro é a favor de sucatear a universidade.
- The minister supports devaluating of the university.
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of sucatear (e becomes ei when stressed) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “sucatear”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- Rebeca Rios Filgueiras Azevedo (2013) “Ali Babá e as 200 palavras: Um estudo da influência do árabe na língua portuguesa”, in UnB[1], page 37.