infrautilizar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /infɾautiliˈθaɾ/ [ĩɱ.fɾau̯.t̪i.liˈθaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /infɾautiliˈsaɾ/ [ĩɱ.fɾau̯.t̪i.liˈsaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: in‧frau‧ti‧li‧zar
Verb
infrautilizar (first-person singular present infrautilizo, first-person singular preterite infrautilicé, past participle infrautilizado)
- to underutilize, underuse
- 2015 July 19, “Las olas de calor disparan la quema de carbón para generar electricidad”, in El País:
- Esto ha hecho que las infrautilizadas centrales de ciclo combinado hayan empezado a funcionar durante este mes.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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Conjugation
Conjugation of infrautilizar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | infrautilizar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | infrautilizando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | infrautilizado | infrautilizada | |||||
| plural | infrautilizados | infrautilizadas | |||||
| 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 | infrautilizo | infrautilizastú infrautilizásvos | infrautiliza | infrautilizamos | infrautilizáis | infrautilizan | |
| imperfect | infrautilizaba | infrautilizabas | infrautilizaba | infrautilizábamos | infrautilizabais | infrautilizaban | |
| preterite | infrautilicé | infrautilizaste | infrautilizó | infrautilizamos | infrautilizasteis | infrautilizaron | |
| future | infrautilizaré | infrautilizarás | infrautilizará | infrautilizaremos | infrautilizaréis | infrautilizarán | |
| conditional | infrautilizaría | infrautilizarías | infrautilizaría | infrautilizaríamos | infrautilizaríais | infrautilizarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | infrautilice | infrautilicestú infrautilicésvos2 | infrautilice | infrautilicemos | infrautilicéis | infrautilicen | |
| imperfect (ra) | infrautilizara | infrautilizaras | infrautilizara | infrautilizáramos | infrautilizarais | infrautilizaran | |
| imperfect (se) | infrautilizase | infrautilizases | infrautilizase | infrautilizásemos | infrautilizaseis | infrautilizasen | |
| future1 | infrautilizare | infrautilizares | infrautilizare | infrautilizáremos | infrautilizareis | infrautilizaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | infrautilizatú infrautilizávos | infrautilice | infrautilicemos | infrautilizad | infrautilicen | ||
| negative | no infrautilices | no infrautilice | no infrautilicemos | no infrautilicéis | no infrautilicen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Further reading
- “infrautilizar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014