envesprir
Catalan
Etymology
en- + vespre + -ir
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /əm.vəsˈpɾi/
- (Central) IPA(key): /əm.bəsˈpɾi/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /em.vesˈpɾiɾ/
Verb
envesprir (first-person singular present envespreixo, past participle envesprit)
- (intransitive) to grow dark, to dusk
- 1938, Ferran Soldevila, Hores angleses:
- Quan el tren ha arrencat de Dover, s'envespria ràpidament. La boirina, molt suau, contribuïa a obscurir el paisatge; els túnels se succeïen. Després de tot el que he hagut d'escoltar aquests darrers dies sobre el clima anglès i la mancança de sol, em feia l'efecte que m'endinsava de mica en mica sota una volta fumosa i que ja no en tornaria a sortir fins a la primavera.
- When the train shot out of Dover, dusk fell rapidly. The mist, very light, contributed to dimming the landscape; one tunnel followed another. After everything that I'd heard over these past days about the English climate and the lack of sun, it had the effect that I was little by little entering a smoky vault and wouldn't come out again until spring.
Conjugation
Conjugation of envesprir (third conjugation with -eix- infix)
| infinitive | envesprir | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | envesprint | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | envesprit | envesprida | |||||
| plural | envesprits | envesprides | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè | nosaltres nós | vosaltres vós | ells/elles vostès | |
| present | envespreixo | envespreixes | envespreix | envesprim | envespriu | envespreixen | |
| imperfect | envespria | envespries | envespria | envespríem | envespríeu | envesprien | |
| future | envespriré | envespriràs | envesprirà | envesprirem | envesprireu | envespriran | |
| preterite | envesprí | envesprires | envesprí | envesprírem | envespríreu | envespriren | |
| conditional | envespriria | envespriries | envespriria | envespriríem | envespriríeu | envespririen | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè | nosaltres nós | vosaltres vós | ells/elles vostès | |
| present | envespreixi | envespreixis | envespreixi | envesprim | envespriu | envespreixin | |
| imperfect | envesprís | envesprissis | envesprís | envespríssim | envespríssiu | envesprissin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós | vostès | |
| — | envespreix | envespreixi | envesprim | envespriu | envespreixin | ||
Further reading
- “envesprir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.