sucatear
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (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)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /su.kɐˈtjaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /su.kɐˈtja.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: su‧ca‧te‧ar
Verb
sucatear (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
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms
- sucata
- sucateiro
- sucateamento
Further reading
- “sucatear” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- Rebeca Rios Filgueiras Azevedo (2013) “Ali Babá e as 200 palavras: Um estudo da influência do árabe na língua portuguesa”, in UnB, page 37.
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