menoscabar
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Vulgar Latin *minuscapāre.
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: me‧nos‧ca‧bar
Verb
editmenoscabar (first-person singular present menoscabo, first-person singular preterite menoscabei, past participle menoscabado)
- (transitive) to turn incomplete or imperfect
- (transitive, figuratively) to discredit, to disbelieve
- (transitive) to despise, to scorn, to look down on
- Synonyms: desprezar, menosprezar
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of menoscabar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Singular | Plural | |||||
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First-person (eu) |
Second-person (tu) |
Third-person (ele / ela / você) |
First-person (nós) |
Second-person (vós) |
Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
Infinitive | ||||||
Impersonal | ||||||
Personal | ||||||
Gerund | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | ||||||
Feminine | ||||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | ||||||
Imperfect | ||||||
Preterite | 1, 2 | |||||
Pluperfect | ||||||
Future | ||||||
Conditional | ||||||
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | ||||||
Imperfect | ||||||
Future | ||||||
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | ||||||
Negative (não) | não menoscabes | não menoscabe | não menoscabemos | não menoscabeis | não menoscabem |
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Spanish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editVerb
editmenoscabar (first-person singular present menoscabo, first-person singular preterite menoscabé, past participle menoscabado)
- to lessen
- menoscabar su premio
- reduce their reward
- to sully; to mutilate
- to undermine
- menoscabar su poder
- subvert their power
- 1908, Benito Pérez Galdós, España trágica, chapter 6:
- Sin menoscabar el respeto que a su buen padrastro debía [...]
- Without undermining the respect owed to their good stepfather [...]
- 2014, Cristina Morató, Reinas malditas:
- El soberano se había convertido en un monarca constitucional con poder limitado, pues los hechos de Varennes habían menoscabado su autoridad.
- The sovereign had become a constitutional monarch with limited power, since the events of Varennes had undermined his authority.
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of menoscabar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | |||||||
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gerund | |||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | |||||||
plural | |||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | vos |
tú||||||
imperfect | |||||||
preterite | |||||||
future | |||||||
conditional | |||||||
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | vos2 |
tú||||||
imperfect (ra) |
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imperfect (se) |
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future1 | |||||||
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | vos |
tú||||||
negative | no menoscabes | no menoscabe | no menoscabemos | no menoscabéis | no menoscaben |
Selected combined forms of menoscabar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
singular | plural | ||||||
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1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
with infinitive | |||||||
dative | , | , | |||||
accusative | , , | , , | |||||
with gerund | |||||||
dative | , | , | |||||
accusative | , , | , , | |||||
with informal second-person singular tú imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
with informal second-person singular vos imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
with formal second-person singular imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | , | not used | ||||
accusative | not used | , , | not used | , | |||
with first-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
with informal second-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
with formal second-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | not used | , | ||||
accusative | not used | , | not used | , , |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
edit- menoscabo (“reduction”)
See also
editFurther reading
edit- “menoscabar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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