coidar

coidar

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese coidar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cōgitāre, present active infinitive of cōgitō (“I think, consider”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kojˈðaɾ/

Verb

coidar (first-person singular present coido, first-person singular preterite coidei, past participle coidado)

1. (transitive) to think; to believe
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 621:

     Et coidarõ os gregos que era morto, et fazíã por el tã grã doo que mayor nõ podíã.

     And the Greek thought that he was dead, and they were in such a mourning that it could not be greater

   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Polo fio d'unha roca

     ó estagamo seme bay,

     é cortafeira coideiche

     que acababa de finar.

     By the thread of a distaff

     my stomach is going away,

     and Wednesday I though

     that I had just died.

   Synonyms: achar, crer, pensar

2. (transitive) to take care of
3. (transitive with de) to take care of; to guard
4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to take care of oneself

Conjugation

Conjugation of coidar

	singular			plural
person	first	second	third	first	second	third
Infinitive	eu	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
impersonal	coidar
personal	coidar	coidares	coidar	coidarmos	coidardes	coidaren
Gerund
	coidando
Past participle	singular			plural
masculine	coidado			coidados
feminine	coidada			coidadas
Indicative	eu	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
present	coido	coidas	coida	coidamos	coidades	coidan
imperfect	coidaba	coidabas	coidaba	coidabamos	coidabades	coidaban
preterite	coidei	coidaches	coidou	coidamos	coidastes	coidaron
pluperfect	coidara	coidaras	coidara	coidaramos	coidarades	coidaran
future	coidarei	coidarás	coidará	coidaremos	coidaredes	coidarán
conditional	coidaría	coidarías	coidaría	coidariamos	coidariades	coidarían
Subjunctive	eu	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
present	coide	coides	coide	coidemos	coidedes	coiden
preterite	coidase	coidases	coidase	coidásemos	coidásedes	coidasen
future	coidar	coidares	coidar	coidarmos	coidardes	coidaren
Imperative	–	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
affirmative	–	coida	coide	coidemos	coidade	coiden
negative	–	coides	coide	coidemos	coidedes	coiden

References

• “coidar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “coidar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “coyd” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “coidar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “coidar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “coidar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.