colectar

colectar

Portuguese

Verb

colectar (first-person singular present colecto, first-person singular preterite colectei, past participle colectado)

1. Superseded spelling of coletar. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of colectar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	colectar
Personal	colectar	colectares	colectar	colectarmos	colectardes	colectarem
Gerund
	colectando
Past participle
Masculine	colectado			colectados
Feminine	colectada			colectadas
Indicative
Present	colecto	colectas	colecta	colectamos	colectais	colectam
Imperfect	colectava	colectavas	colectava	colectávamos	colectáveis	colectavam
Preterite	colectei	colectaste	colectou	colectamos1, colectámos2	colectastes	colectaram
Pluperfect	colectara	colectaras	colectara	colectáramos	colectáreis	colectaram
Future	colectarei	colectarás	colectará	colectaremos	colectareis	colectarão
Conditional
	colectaria	colectarias	colectaria	colectaríamos	colectaríeis	colectariam
Subjunctive
Present	colecte	colectes	colecte	colectemos	colecteis	colectem
Imperfect	colectasse	colectasses	colectasse	colectássemos	colectásseis	colectassem
Future	colectar	colectares	colectar	colectarmos	colectardes	colectarem
Imperative
Affirmative		colecta	colecte	colectemos	colectai	colectem
Negative (não)		não colectes	não colecte	não colectemos	não colecteis	não colectem

¹Brazil.
²Portugal.

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Spanish

Etymology

Derived from Latin colligō (“gather, collect”).

Verb

colectar (first-person singular present colecto, first-person singular preterite colecté, past participle colectado)

1. to collect

Conjugation

    Conjugation of colectar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			colectar
gerund			colectando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		colectado		colectada
		plural		colectados		colectadas
		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	colecto	colectastú colectásvos	colecta	colectamos	colectáis	colectan
	imperfect	colectaba	colectabas	colectaba	colectábamos	colectabais	colectaban
	preterite	colecté	colectaste	colectó	colectamos	colectasteis	colectaron
	future	colectaré	colectarás	colectará	colectaremos	colectaréis	colectarán
	conditional	colectaría	colectarías	colectaría	colectaríamos	colectaríais	colectarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	colecte	colectestú colectésvos2	colecte	colectemos	colectéis	colecten
	imperfect (ra)	colectara	colectaras	colectara	colectáramos	colectarais	colectaran
	imperfect (se)	colectase	colectases	colectase	colectásemos	colectaseis	colectasen
	future1	colectare	colectares	colectare	colectáremos	colectareis	colectaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		colectatú colectávos	colecte	colectemos	colectad	colecten
	negative		no colectes	no colecte	no colectemos	no colectéis	no colecten

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

    Selected combined forms of colectar

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
with infinitive colectar
	dative	colectarme	colectarte	colectarle, colectarse	colectarnos	colectaros	colectarles, colectarse
	accusative	colectarme	colectarte	colectarlo, colectarla, colectarse	colectarnos	colectaros	colectarlos, colectarlas, colectarse
with gerund colectando
	dative	colectándome	colectándote	colectándole, colectándose	colectándonos	colectándoos	colectándoles, colectándose
	accusative	colectándome	colectándote	colectándolo, colectándola, colectándose	colectándonos	colectándoos	colectándolos, colectándolas, colectándose
with informal second-person singular tú imperative colecta
	dative	coléctame	coléctate	coléctale	coléctanos	not used	coléctales
	accusative	coléctame	coléctate	coléctalo, coléctala	coléctanos	not used	coléctalos, coléctalas
with informal second-person singular vos imperative colectá
	dative	colectame	colectate	colectale	colectanos	not used	colectales
	accusative	colectame	colectate	colectalo, colectala	colectanos	not used	colectalos, colectalas
with formal second-person singular imperative colecte
	dative	colécteme	not used	coléctele, coléctese	coléctenos	not used	colécteles
	accusative	colécteme	not used	coléctelo, coléctela, coléctese	coléctenos	not used	coléctelos, coléctelas
with first-person plural imperative colectemos
	dative	not used	colectémoste	colectémosle	colectémonos	colectémoos	colectémosles
	accusative	not used	colectémoste	colectémoslo, colectémosla	colectémonos	colectémoos	colectémoslos, colectémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative colectad
	dative	colectadme	not used	colectadle	colectadnos	colectaos	colectadles
	accusative	colectadme	not used	colectadlo, colectadla	colectadnos	colectaos	colectadlos, colectadlas
with formal second-person plural imperative colecten
	dative	coléctenme	not used	coléctenle	coléctennos	not used	coléctenles, coléctense
	accusative	coléctenme	not used	coléctenlo, coléctenla	coléctennos	not used	coléctenlos, coléctenlas, coléctense

Further reading

• “colectar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014