debelar
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēbellāre.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.beˈla(ʁ)/ [de.beˈla(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /de.beˈla(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /de.beˈla(ʁ)/ [de.beˈla(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /de.beˈla(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /dɨ.bɨˈlaɾ/ [dɨ.βɨˈlaɾ]
- Hyphenation: de‧be‧lar
Verb
debelar (first-person singular present debelo, first-person singular preterite debelei, past participle debelado)
- (transitive, military) to win, to conquer
- Synonyms: vencer, derrotar
- Antonym: perder
- (transitive, medicine) to neutralize/neutralise, to stop the effects of (e.g. a disease)
- Synonyms: neutralizar, refrear, reprimir
- (transitive, by extension) to stop or prevent
- Synonyms: prevenir, impedir, parar, aplacar
Conjugation
Conjugation of debelar (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 | debelar | |||||
| Personal | debelar | debelares | debelar | debelarmos | debelardes | debelarem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| debelando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | debelado | debelados | ||||
| Feminine | debelada | debeladas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | debelo | debelas | debela | debelamos | debelais | debelam |
| Imperfect | debelava | debelavas | debelava | debelávamos | debeláveis | debelavam |
| Preterite | debelei | debelaste | debelou | debelamos1, debelámos2 | debelastes | debelaram |
| Pluperfect | debelara | debelaras | debelara | debeláramos | debeláreis | debelaram |
| Future | debelarei | debelarás | debelará | debelaremos | debelareis | debelarão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| debelaria | debelarias | debelaria | debelaríamos | debelaríeis | debelariam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | debele | debeles | debele | debelemos | debeleis | debelem |
| Imperfect | debelasse | debelasses | debelasse | debelássemos | debelásseis | debelassem |
| Future | debelar | debelares | debelar | debelarmos | debelardes | debelarem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | debela | debele | debelemos | debelai | debelem | |
| Negative (não) | não debeles | não debele | não debelemos | não debeleis | não debelem | |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Related terms
- debelação, debelatório
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin dēbellāre, present active infinitive of dēbellō.
Verb
debelar (first-person singular present debelo, first-person singular preterite debelé, past participle debelado)
- to conquer
- Synonym: conquistar
Conjugation
Conjugation of debelar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | debelar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | debelando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | debelado | debelada | |||||
| plural | debelados | debeladas | |||||
| 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 | debelo | debelastú debelásvos | debela | debelamos | debeláis | debelan | |
| imperfect | debelaba | debelabas | debelaba | debelábamos | debelabais | debelaban | |
| preterite | debelé | debelaste | debeló | debelamos | debelasteis | debelaron | |
| future | debelaré | debelarás | debelará | debelaremos | debelaréis | debelarán | |
| conditional | debelaría | debelarías | debelaría | debelaríamos | debelaríais | debelarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | debele | debelestú debelésvos2 | debele | debelemos | debeléis | debelen | |
| imperfect (ra) | debelara | debelaras | debelara | debeláramos | debelarais | debelaran | |
| imperfect (se) | debelase | debelases | debelase | debelásemos | debelaseis | debelasen | |
| future1 | debelare | debelares | debelare | debeláremos | debelareis | debelaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | debelatú debelávos | debele | debelemos | debelad | debelen | ||
| negative | no debeles | no debele | no debelemos | no debeléis | no debelen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Further reading
- “debelar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014