embarazar
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish embaraçar, from Portuguese embaraçar (literally “to tangle, to snarl”), from baraço (“twine, tether, noose”), from Arabic مَرَسَة (marasa, “rope”). See the Portuguese entry for more. The source of French embarrasser, whence English embarrass.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /embaɾaˈθaɾ/ [ẽm.ba.ɾaˈθaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /embaɾaˈsaɾ/ [ẽm.ba.ɾaˈsaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: em‧ba‧ra‧zar
Verb
embarazar (first-person singular present embarazo, first-person singular preterite embaracé, past participle embarazado)
- (transitive) to impregnate, make pregnant
- Javier ha embarazado a María
- Javier has impregnated María.
- Synonym: preñar
- (reflexive) to become pregnant
- Synonym: concebir
- (transitive) to incommode, annoy
Conjugation
Conjugation of embarazar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | |||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | |||||||
plural | |||||||
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 | vos | tú||||||
imperfect | |||||||
preterite | |||||||
future | |||||||
conditional | |||||||
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | vos2 | tú||||||
imperfect (ra) | |||||||
imperfect (se) | |||||||
future1 | |||||||
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | vos | tú||||||
negative | no embaraces | no embarace | no embaracemos | no embaracéis | no embaracen |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of embarazar (c-z alternation)
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 | |||||||
dative | , | , | |||||
accusative | , , | , , | |||||
with gerund | |||||||
dative | , | , | |||||
accusative | , , | , , | |||||
with informal second-person singular tú imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
with informal second-person singular vos imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
with formal second-person singular imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | , | not used | ||||
accusative | not used | , , | not used | , | |||
with first-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
with informal second-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
with formal second-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | not used | , | ||||
accusative | not used | , | not used | , , |
Related terms
- desembarazar
- embarazo
- embarazoso
Further reading
- “embarazar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
- abrazarme