fracasar
Spanish
Etymology
From Italian fracassare. Compare English fracas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɾakaˈsaɾ/ [fɾa.kaˈsaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: fra‧ca‧sar
Verb
fracasar (first-person singular present fracaso, first-person singular preterite fracasé, past participle fracasado)
- (intransitive) to fail, flop, lose
- fracasar en algo ― to fail at something
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) to break into pieces
Conjugation
Conjugation of fracasar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | fracasar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | fracasando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | fracasado | fracasada | |||||
| plural | fracasados | fracasadas | |||||
| 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 | fracaso | fracasastú fracasásvos | fracasa | fracasamos | fracasáis | fracasan | |
| imperfect | fracasaba | fracasabas | fracasaba | fracasábamos | fracasabais | fracasaban | |
| preterite | fracasé | fracasaste | fracasó | fracasamos | fracasasteis | fracasaron | |
| future | fracasaré | fracasarás | fracasará | fracasaremos | fracasaréis | fracasarán | |
| conditional | fracasaría | fracasarías | fracasaría | fracasaríamos | fracasaríais | fracasarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | fracase | fracasestú fracasésvos2 | fracase | fracasemos | fracaséis | fracasen | |
| imperfect (ra) | fracasara | fracasaras | fracasara | fracasáramos | fracasarais | fracasaran | |
| imperfect (se) | fracasase | fracasases | fracasase | fracasásemos | fracasaseis | fracasasen | |
| future1 | fracasare | fracasares | fracasare | fracasáremos | fracasareis | fracasaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | fracasatú fracasávos | fracase | fracasemos | fracasad | fracasen | ||
| negative | no fracases | no fracase | no fracasemos | no fracaséis | no fracasen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Related terms
- fracaso
- fracasado
Further reading
- “fracasar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014