compasar
Spanish
Alternative forms
- acompasar
- compasear (music)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kompaˈsaɾ/ [kõm.paˈsaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: com‧pa‧sar
Verb
compasar (first-person singular present compaso, first-person singular preterite compasé, past participle compasado)
- to measure with a compass
- to adjust
- (music) to divide into bars
Conjugation
Conjugation of compasar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | compasar | ||||||
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gerund | compasando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | compasado | compasada | |||||
plural | compasados | compasadas | |||||
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 | compaso | compasastú compasásvos | compasa | compasamos | compasáis | compasan | |
imperfect | compasaba | compasabas | compasaba | compasábamos | compasabais | compasaban | |
preterite | compasé | compasaste | compasó | compasamos | compasasteis | compasaron | |
future | compasaré | compasarás | compasará | compasaremos | compasaréis | compasarán | |
conditional | compasaría | compasarías | compasaría | compasaríamos | compasaríais | compasarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | compase | compasestú compasésvos2 | compase | compasemos | compaséis | compasen | |
imperfect (ra) | compasara | compasaras | compasara | compasáramos | compasarais | compasaran | |
imperfect (se) | compasase | compasases | compasase | compasásemos | compasaseis | compasasen | |
future1 | compasare | compasares | compasare | compasáremos | compasareis | compasaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | compasatú compasávos | compase | compasemos | compasad | compasen | ||
negative | no compases | no compase | no compasemos | no compaséis | no compasen |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Related terms
- compás
Further reading
- “compasar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014