deleitar
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Occitan, Provençal, and Catalan deleitar, from Latin delectare (“to charm”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deleiˈtaɾ/ [d̪e.lei̯ˈt̪aɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: de‧lei‧tar
Verb
deleitar (first-person singular present deleito, first-person singular preterite deleité, past participle deleitado)
- to please, delight
- (reflexive) to take delight
Conjugation
Conjugation of deleitar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | deleitar | ||||||
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gerund | deleitando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | deleitado | deleitada | |||||
plural | deleitados | deleitadas | |||||
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 | deleito | deleitastú deleitásvos | deleita | deleitamos | deleitáis | deleitan | |
imperfect | deleitaba | deleitabas | deleitaba | deleitábamos | deleitabais | deleitaban | |
preterite | deleité | deleitaste | deleitó | deleitamos | deleitasteis | deleitaron | |
future | deleitaré | deleitarás | deleitará | deleitaremos | deleitaréis | deleitarán | |
conditional | deleitaría | deleitarías | deleitaría | deleitaríamos | deleitaríais | deleitarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | deleite | deleitestú deleitésvos2 | deleite | deleitemos | deleitéis | deleiten | |
imperfect (ra) | deleitara | deleitaras | deleitara | deleitáramos | deleitarais | deleitaran | |
imperfect (se) | deleitase | deleitases | deleitase | deleitásemos | deleitaseis | deleitasen | |
future1 | deleitare | deleitares | deleitare | deleitáremos | deleitareis | deleitaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | deleitatú deleitávos | deleite | deleitemos | deleitad | deleiten | ||
negative | no deleites | no deleite | no deleitemos | no deleitéis | no deleiten |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of deleitar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
singular | plural | ||||||
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1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
with infinitive deleitar | |||||||
dative | deleitarme | deleitarte | deleitarle, deleitarse | deleitarnos | deleitaros | deleitarles, deleitarse | |
accusative | deleitarme | deleitarte | deleitarlo, deleitarla, deleitarse | deleitarnos | deleitaros | deleitarlos, deleitarlas, deleitarse | |
with gerund deleitando | |||||||
dative | deleitándome | deleitándote | deleitándole, deleitándose | deleitándonos | deleitándoos | deleitándoles, deleitándose | |
accusative | deleitándome | deleitándote | deleitándolo, deleitándola, deleitándose | deleitándonos | deleitándoos | deleitándolos, deleitándolas, deleitándose | |
with informal second-person singular tú imperative deleita | |||||||
dative | deléitame | deléitate | deléitale | deléitanos | not used | deléitales | |
accusative | deléitame | deléitate | deléitalo, deléitala | deléitanos | not used | deléitalos, deléitalas | |
with informal second-person singular vos imperative deleitá | |||||||
dative | deleitame | deleitate | deleitale | deleitanos | not used | deleitales | |
accusative | deleitame | deleitate | deleitalo, deleitala | deleitanos | not used | deleitalos, deleitalas | |
with formal second-person singular imperative deleite | |||||||
dative | deléiteme | not used | deléitele, deléitese | deléitenos | not used | deléiteles | |
accusative | deléiteme | not used | deléitelo, deléitela, deléitese | deléitenos | not used | deléitelos, deléitelas | |
with first-person plural imperative deleitemos | |||||||
dative | not used | deleitémoste | deleitémosle | deleitémonos | deleitémoos | deleitémosles | |
accusative | not used | deleitémoste | deleitémoslo, deleitémosla | deleitémonos | deleitémoos | deleitémoslos, deleitémoslas | |
with informal second-person plural imperative deleitad | |||||||
dative | deleitadme | not used | deleitadle | deleitadnos | deleitaos | deleitadles | |
accusative | deleitadme | not used | deleitadlo, deleitadla | deleitadnos | deleitaos | deleitadlos, deleitadlas | |
with formal second-person plural imperative deleiten | |||||||
dative | deléitenme | not used | deléitenle | deléitennos | not used | deléitenles, deléitense | |
accusative | deléitenme | not used | deléitenlo, deléitenla | deléitennos | not used | deléitenlos, deléitenlas, deléitense |
See also
- gustar
Further reading
- “deleitar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014