menoscabar
Portuguese
Verb
menoscabar (first-person singular present menoscabo, first-person singular preterite menoscabei, past participle menoscabado)
- (transitive) to turn incomplete or imperfect
- (transitive, figuratively) to discredit, to disbelieve
- (transitive) to despise, to scorn, to look down on
- Synonyms: desprezar, menosprezar
Conjugation
Conjugation of menoscabar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Singular | Plural | |||||
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First-person (eu) | Second-person (tu) | Third-person (ele / ela / você) | First-person (nós) | Second-person (vós) | Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
Infinitive | ||||||
Impersonal | ||||||
Personal | ||||||
Gerund | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | ||||||
Feminine | ||||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | ||||||
Imperfect | ||||||
Preterite | 1, 2 | |||||
Pluperfect | ||||||
Future | ||||||
Conditional | ||||||
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | ||||||
Imperfect | ||||||
Future | ||||||
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | ||||||
Negative (não) | não menoscabes | não menoscabe | não menoscabemos | não menoscabeis | não menoscabem |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Spanish
Etymology
menos + cabo + -ar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /menoskaˈbaɾ/ [me.nos.kaˈβ̞aɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: me‧nos‧ca‧bar
Verb
menoscabar (first-person singular present menoscabo, first-person singular preterite menoscabé, past participle menoscabado)
- to lessen
- to sully; to mutilate
- to undermine
- 1908, Benito Pérez Galdós, España trágica, chapter 6:
- Sin menoscabar el respeto que a su buen padrastro debía
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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Conjugation
Conjugation of menoscabar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | |||||||
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gerund | |||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | |||||||
plural | |||||||
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 | vos | tú||||||
imperfect | |||||||
preterite | |||||||
future | |||||||
conditional | |||||||
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | vos2 | tú||||||
imperfect (ra) | |||||||
imperfect (se) | |||||||
future1 | |||||||
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | vos | tú||||||
negative | no menoscabes | no menoscabe | no menoscabemos | no menoscabéis | no menoscaben |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of menoscabar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
singular | plural | ||||||
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1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
with infinitive | |||||||
dative | , | , | |||||
accusative | , , | , , | |||||
with gerund | |||||||
dative | , | , | |||||
accusative | , , | , , | |||||
with informal second-person singular tú imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
with informal second-person singular vos imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
with formal second-person singular imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | , | not used | ||||
accusative | not used | , , | not used | , | |||
with first-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
with informal second-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
with formal second-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | not used | , | ||||
accusative | not used | , | not used | , , |
Derived terms
- menoscabador
Related terms
- menoscabo (“reduction”)
See also
- socavar
Further reading
- “menoscabar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014