contrair

Portuguese

From Latin contraho, contrahere, probably a borrowing.

contrair (first-person singular present indicative contraio, past participle contraído)

(takes a reflexive pronoun, intransitive) to contract (to draw together; to become shorter or narrower)
(takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive) to contract (to cause to contract)
(grammar, intransitive) to contract (to become shorter by omitting some phonemes)
(transitive) to contract (to acquire an illness)
(transitive) to acquire (to come to have)

Conjugation of the Portuguese -ir verb contrair

	Singular			Plural
Notes:^[edit] This is an irregular verb of the -ir group. Verbs with this conjugation include: atrair, cair, contrair, distrair, sair, subtrair, trair.
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	contrair
Personal	contrair	contraíres	contrair	contrairmos	contrairdes	contraírem
Gerund
	contraindo
Past participle
Masculine	contraído			contraídos
Feminine	contraída			contraídas
Indicative
Present	contraio	contrais	contrai	contraímos	contraís	contraem
Imperfect	contraía	contraías	contraía	contraíamos	contraíeis	contraíam
Preterite	contraí	contraíste	contraiu	contraímos	contraístes	contraíram
Pluperfect	contraíra	contraíras	contraíra	contraíramos	contraíreis	contraíram
Future	contrairei	contrairás	contrairá	contrairemos	contraireis	contrairão
Conditional
	contrairia	contrairias	contrairia	contrairíamos	contrairíeis	contrairiam
Subjunctive
Present	contraia	contraias	contraia	contraiamos	contraiais	contraiam
Imperfect	contraísse	contraísses	contraísse	contraíssemos	contraísseis	contraíssem
Future	contrair	contraíres	contrair	contrairmos	contrairdes	contraírem
Imperative
Affirmative	-	contrai	contraia	contraiamos	contraí	contraiam
Negative (não)	-	contraias	contraia	contraiamos	contraiais	contraiam