enrolar
Portuguese
Etymology
From en- + rolo + -ar.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ʁoˈla(ʁ)/ [ẽ.hoˈla(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ʁoˈla(ʁ)/ [ĩ.hoˈla(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ʁoˈla(ɾ)/ [ẽ.hoˈla(ɾ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ʁoˈla(ɾ)/ [ĩ.hoˈla(ɾ)]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ʁoˈla(ʁ)/ [ẽ.χoˈla(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ʁoˈla(ʁ)/ [ĩ.χoˈla(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ʁoˈla(ɻ)/ [ẽ.hoˈla(ɻ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ʁoˈla(ɻ)/ [ĩ.hoˈla(ɻ)]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽ.ʁuˈlaɾ/
- Hyphenation: en‧ro‧lar
Verb
enrolar (first-person singular present enrolo, first-person singular preterite enrolei, past participle enrolado)
- to curl or coil (up)
- to stall
- (informal) to scam
- (reflexive) to tangle (to become mixed together or intertwined)
- Synonyms: embaraçar, emaranhar
- (Brazil, reflexive) to procrastinate (to become mixed together or intertwined)
Conjugation
Conjugation of enrolar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Singular | Plural | |||||
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First-person (eu) | Second-person (tu) | Third-person (ele / ela / você) | First-person (nós) | Second-person (vós) | Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
Infinitive | ||||||
Impersonal | enrolar | |||||
Personal | enrolar | enrolares | enrolar | enrolarmos | enrolardes | enrolarem |
Gerund | ||||||
enrolando | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | enrolado | enrolados | ||||
Feminine | enrolada | enroladas | ||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | enrolo | enrolas | enrola | enrolamos | enrolais | enrolam |
Imperfect | enrolava | enrolavas | enrolava | enrolávamos | enroláveis | enrolavam |
Preterite | enrolei | enrolaste | enrolou | enrolamos1, enrolámos2 | enrolastes | enrolaram |
Pluperfect | enrolara | enrolaras | enrolara | enroláramos | enroláreis | enrolaram |
Future | enrolarei | enrolarás | enrolará | enrolaremos | enrolareis | enrolarão |
Conditional | ||||||
enrolaria | enrolarias | enrolaria | enrolaríamos | enrolaríeis | enrolariam | |
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | enrole | enroles | enrole | enrolemos | enroleis | enrolem |
Imperfect | enrolasse | enrolasses | enrolasse | enrolássemos | enrolásseis | enrolassem |
Future | enrolar | enrolares | enrolar | enrolarmos | enrolardes | enrolarem |
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | enrola | enrole | enrolemos | enrolai | enrolem | |
Negative (não) | não enroles | não enrole | não enrolemos | não enroleis | não enrolem |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Derived terms
- enrolamento
Spanish
Etymology
en- + rol + -ar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /enroˈlaɾ/ [ẽn.roˈlaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: en‧ro‧lar
Verb
enrolar (first-person singular present enrolo, first-person singular preterite enrolé, past participle enrolado)
- to recruit
Conjugation
Conjugation of enrolar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | enrolar | ||||||
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gerund | enrolando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | enrolado | enrolada | |||||
plural | enrolados | enroladas | |||||
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 | enrolo | enrolastú enrolásvos | enrola | enrolamos | enroláis | enrolan | |
imperfect | enrolaba | enrolabas | enrolaba | enrolábamos | enrolabais | enrolaban | |
preterite | enrolé | enrolaste | enroló | enrolamos | enrolasteis | enrolaron | |
future | enrolaré | enrolarás | enrolará | enrolaremos | enrolaréis | enrolarán | |
conditional | enrolaría | enrolarías | enrolaría | enrolaríamos | enrolaríais | enrolarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | enrole | enrolestú enrolésvos2 | enrole | enrolemos | enroléis | enrolen | |
imperfect (ra) | enrolara | enrolaras | enrolara | enroláramos | enrolarais | enrolaran | |
imperfect (se) | enrolase | enrolases | enrolase | enrolásemos | enrolaseis | enrolasen | |
future1 | enrolare | enrolares | enrolare | enroláremos | enrolareis | enrolaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | enrolatú enrolávos | enrole | enrolemos | enrolad | enrolen | ||
negative | no enroles | no enrole | no enrolemos | no enroléis | no enrolen |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of enrolar
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 enrolar | |||||||
dative | enrolarme | enrolarte | enrolarle, enrolarse | enrolarnos | enrolaros | enrolarles, enrolarse | |
accusative | enrolarme | enrolarte | enrolarlo, enrolarla, enrolarse | enrolarnos | enrolaros | enrolarlos, enrolarlas, enrolarse | |
with gerund enrolando | |||||||
dative | enrolándome | enrolándote | enrolándole, enrolándose | enrolándonos | enrolándoos | enrolándoles, enrolándose | |
accusative | enrolándome | enrolándote | enrolándolo, enrolándola, enrolándose | enrolándonos | enrolándoos | enrolándolos, enrolándolas, enrolándose | |
with informal second-person singular tú imperative enrola | |||||||
dative | enrólame | enrólate | enrólale | enrólanos | not used | enrólales | |
accusative | enrólame | enrólate | enrólalo, enrólala | enrólanos | not used | enrólalos, enrólalas | |
with informal second-person singular vos imperative enrolá | |||||||
dative | enrolame | enrolate | enrolale | enrolanos | not used | enrolales | |
accusative | enrolame | enrolate | enrolalo, enrolala | enrolanos | not used | enrolalos, enrolalas | |
with formal second-person singular imperative enrole | |||||||
dative | enróleme | not used | enrólele, enrólese | enrólenos | not used | enróleles | |
accusative | enróleme | not used | enrólelo, enrólela, enrólese | enrólenos | not used | enrólelos, enrólelas | |
with first-person plural imperative enrolemos | |||||||
dative | not used | enrolémoste | enrolémosle | enrolémonos | enrolémoos | enrolémosles | |
accusative | not used | enrolémoste | enrolémoslo, enrolémosla | enrolémonos | enrolémoos | enrolémoslos, enrolémoslas | |
with informal second-person plural imperative enrolad | |||||||
dative | enroladme | not used | enroladle | enroladnos | enrolaos | enroladles | |
accusative | enroladme | not used | enroladlo, enroladla | enroladnos | enrolaos | enroladlos, enroladlas | |
with formal second-person plural imperative enrolen | |||||||
dative | enrólenme | not used | enrólenle | enrólennos | not used | enrólenles, enrólense | |
accusative | enrólenme | not used | enrólenlo, enrólenla | enrólennos | not used | enrólenlos, enrólenlas, enrólense |
Derived terms
- enrolamiento
Further reading
- “enrolar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014