guadañar
Spanish
Etymology
From guadaña, or from Old Spanish guadanyar, from Vulgar Latin *wadaniō, *wadaniāre (“pursue, win; scythe, mow, graze”), of Germanic origin. The semantics shifted to "win/gain/earn" in most of the other Romance languages.
Compare Portuguese ganhar, Catalan guanyar, French gagner, Italian guadagnare. See also Spanish ganar (“gain, win, earn”), from a different root influenced by the etymon of this word.
Verb
guadañar (first-person singular present guadaño, first-person singular preterite guadañé, past participle guadañado)
- to scythe; mow
Conjugation
Conjugation of guadañar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | guadañar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | guadañando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | guadañado | guadañada | |||||
| plural | guadañados | guadañadas | |||||
| 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 | guadaño | guadañastú guadañásvos | guadaña | guadañamos | guadañáis | guadañan | |
| imperfect | guadañaba | guadañabas | guadañaba | guadañábamos | guadañabais | guadañaban | |
| preterite | guadañé | guadañaste | guadañó | guadañamos | guadañasteis | guadañaron | |
| future | guadañaré | guadañarás | guadañará | guadañaremos | guadañaréis | guadañarán | |
| conditional | guadañaría | guadañarías | guadañaría | guadañaríamos | guadañaríais | guadañarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | guadañe | guadañestú guadañésvos2 | guadañe | guadañemos | guadañéis | guadañen | |
| imperfect (ra) | guadañara | guadañaras | guadañara | guadañáramos | guadañarais | guadañaran | |
| imperfect (se) | guadañase | guadañases | guadañase | guadañásemos | guadañaseis | guadañasen | |
| future1 | guadañare | guadañares | guadañare | guadañáremos | guadañareis | guadañaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | guadañatú guadañávos | guadañe | guadañemos | guadañad | guadañen | ||
| negative | no guadañes | no guadañe | no guadañemos | no guadañéis | no guadañen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Related terms
- guadaña
Further reading
- “guadañar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014