enroscar
Portuguese
Verb
enroscar (first-person singular present enrosco, first-person singular preterite enrosquei, past participle enroscado)
- to coil up
- 1995, José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, Caminho:
- Enroscado sobre si mesmo, como se tivesse querido proteger o derradeiro calor do ventre, não se moveu apesar da chuva que começara a cair mais grossa.
- Coiled up around himself, as if he had wanted to protect the last warmth of his belly, he did not move despite the rain, which had started falling more heavily.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of enroscar (c-qu alternation) (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 | enroscar | |||||
| Personal | enroscar | enroscares | enroscar | enroscarmos | enroscardes | enroscarem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| enroscando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | enroscado | enroscados | ||||
| Feminine | enroscada | enroscadas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | enrosco | enroscas | enrosca | enroscamos | enroscais | enroscam |
| Imperfect | enroscava | enroscavas | enroscava | enroscávamos | enroscáveis | enroscavam |
| Preterite | enrosquei | enroscaste | enroscou | enroscamos1, enroscámos2 | enroscastes | enroscaram |
| Pluperfect | enroscara | enroscaras | enroscara | enroscáramos | enroscáreis | enroscaram |
| Future | enroscarei | enroscarás | enroscará | enroscaremos | enroscareis | enroscarão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| enroscaria | enroscarias | enroscaria | enroscaríamos | enroscaríeis | enroscariam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | enrosque | enrosques | enrosque | enrosquemos | enrosqueis | enrosquem |
| Imperfect | enroscasse | enroscasses | enroscasse | enroscássemos | enroscásseis | enroscassem |
| Future | enroscar | enroscares | enroscar | enroscarmos | enroscardes | enroscarem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | enrosca | enrosque | enrosquemos | enroscai | enrosquem | |
| Negative (não) | não enrosques | não enrosque | não enrosquemos | não enrosqueis | não enrosquem | |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Spanish
Etymology
From en- + rosca + -ar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /enrosˈkaɾ/ [ẽn.rosˈkaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: en‧ros‧car
Verb
enroscar (first-person singular present enrosco, first-person singular preterite enrosqué, past participle enroscado)
- to screw in
- Antonym: desenroscar
- to coil; to coil up
- Antonym: desenroscar
Conjugation
Conjugation of enroscar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | enroscar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | enroscando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | enroscado | enroscada | |||||
| plural | enroscados | enroscadas | |||||
| 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 | enrosco | enroscastú enroscásvos | enrosca | enroscamos | enroscáis | enroscan | |
| imperfect | enroscaba | enroscabas | enroscaba | enroscábamos | enroscabais | enroscaban | |
| preterite | enrosqué | enroscaste | enroscó | enroscamos | enroscasteis | enroscaron | |
| future | enroscaré | enroscarás | enroscará | enroscaremos | enroscaréis | enroscarán | |
| conditional | enroscaría | enroscarías | enroscaría | enroscaríamos | enroscaríais | enroscarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | enrosque | enrosquestú enrosquésvos2 | enrosque | enrosquemos | enrosquéis | enrosquen | |
| imperfect (ra) | enroscara | enroscaras | enroscara | enroscáramos | enroscarais | enroscaran | |
| imperfect (se) | enroscase | enroscases | enroscase | enroscásemos | enroscaseis | enroscasen | |
| future1 | enroscare | enroscares | enroscare | enroscáremos | enroscareis | enroscaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | enroscatú enroscávos | enrosque | enrosquemos | enroscad | enrosquen | ||
| negative | no enrosques | no enrosque | no enrosquemos | no enrosquéis | no enrosquen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of enroscar (c-qu 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 enroscar | |||||||
| dative | enroscarme | enroscarte | enroscarle, enroscarse | enroscarnos | enroscaros | enroscarles, enroscarse | |
| accusative | enroscarme | enroscarte | enroscarlo, enroscarla, enroscarse | enroscarnos | enroscaros | enroscarlos, enroscarlas, enroscarse | |
| with gerund enroscando | |||||||
| dative | enroscándome | enroscándote | enroscándole, enroscándose | enroscándonos | enroscándoos | enroscándoles, enroscándose | |
| accusative | enroscándome | enroscándote | enroscándolo, enroscándola, enroscándose | enroscándonos | enroscándoos | enroscándolos, enroscándolas, enroscándose | |
| with informal second-person singular tú imperative enrosca | |||||||
| dative | enróscame | enróscate | enróscale | enróscanos | not used | enróscales | |
| accusative | enróscame | enróscate | enróscalo, enróscala | enróscanos | not used | enróscalos, enróscalas | |
| with informal second-person singular vos imperative enroscá | |||||||
| dative | enroscame | enroscate | enroscale | enroscanos | not used | enroscales | |
| accusative | enroscame | enroscate | enroscalo, enroscala | enroscanos | not used | enroscalos, enroscalas | |
| with formal second-person singular imperative enrosque | |||||||
| dative | enrósqueme | not used | enrósquele, enrósquese | enrósquenos | not used | enrósqueles | |
| accusative | enrósqueme | not used | enrósquelo, enrósquela, enrósquese | enrósquenos | not used | enrósquelos, enrósquelas | |
| with first-person plural imperative enrosquemos | |||||||
| dative | not used | enrosquémoste | enrosquémosle | enrosquémonos | enrosquémoos | enrosquémosles | |
| accusative | not used | enrosquémoste | enrosquémoslo, enrosquémosla | enrosquémonos | enrosquémoos | enrosquémoslos, enrosquémoslas | |
| with informal second-person plural imperative enroscad | |||||||
| dative | enroscadme | not used | enroscadle | enroscadnos | enroscaos | enroscadles | |
| accusative | enroscadme | not used | enroscadlo, enroscadla | enroscadnos | enroscaos | enroscadlos, enroscadlas | |
| with formal second-person plural imperative enrosquen | |||||||
| dative | enrósquenme | not used | enrósquenle | enrósquennos | not used | enrósquenles, enrósquense | |
| accusative | enrósquenme | not used | enrósquenlo, enrósquenla | enrósquennos | not used | enrósquenlos, enrósquenlas, enrósquense | |
Further reading
- “enroscar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014