pacificar
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pācificāre (“to pacify; to make peace”). Doublet of apaziguar.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.si.fiˈka(ʁ)/ [pa.si.fiˈka(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /pa.si.fiˈka(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /pa.si.fiˈka(ʁ)/ [pa.si.fiˈka(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.si.fiˈka(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɐ.si.fiˈkaɾ/
Verb
pacificar (first-person singular present pacifico, first-person singular preterite pacifiquei, past participle pacificado)
- to pacify
Conjugation
Conjugation of pacificar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-person (eu) | Second-person (tu) | Third-person (ele / ela / você) | First-person (nós) | Second-person (vós) | Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Impersonal | pacificar | |||||
| Personal | pacificar | pacificares | pacificar | pacificarmos | pacificardes | pacificarem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| pacificando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | pacificado | pacificados | ||||
| Feminine | pacificada | pacificadas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | pacifico | pacificas | pacifica | pacificamos | pacificais | pacificam |
| Imperfect | pacificava | pacificavas | pacificava | pacificávamos | pacificáveis | pacificavam |
| Preterite | pacifiquei | pacificaste | pacificou | pacificamos1, pacificámos2 | pacificastes | pacificaram |
| Pluperfect | pacificara | pacificaras | pacificara | pacificáramos | pacificáreis | pacificaram |
| Future | pacificarei | pacificarás | pacificará | pacificaremos | pacificareis | pacificarão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| pacificaria | pacificarias | pacificaria | pacificaríamos | pacificaríeis | pacificariam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | pacifique | pacifiques | pacifique | pacifiquemos | pacifiqueis | pacifiquem |
| Imperfect | pacificasse | pacificasses | pacificasse | pacificássemos | pacificásseis | pacificassem |
| Future | pacificar | pacificares | pacificar | pacificarmos | pacificardes | pacificarem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | pacifica | pacifique | pacifiquemos | pacificai | pacifiquem | |
| Negative (não) | não pacifiques | não pacifique | não pacifiquemos | não pacifiqueis | não pacifiquem | |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /paθifiˈkaɾ/ [pa.θi.fiˈkaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /pasifiˈkaɾ/ [pa.si.fiˈkaɾ]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: pa‧ci‧fi‧car
Verb
pacificar (first-person singular present pacifico, first-person singular preterite pacifiqué, past participle pacificado)
- (transitive) to pacify
- Synonym: apaciguar
Conjugation
Conjugation of pacificar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | pacificar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | pacificando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | pacificado | pacificada | |||||
| plural | pacificados | pacificadas | |||||
| 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 | pacifico | pacificastú pacificásvos | pacifica | pacificamos | pacificáis | pacifican | |
| imperfect | pacificaba | pacificabas | pacificaba | pacificábamos | pacificabais | pacificaban | |
| preterite | pacifiqué | pacificaste | pacificó | pacificamos | pacificasteis | pacificaron | |
| future | pacificaré | pacificarás | pacificará | pacificaremos | pacificaréis | pacificarán | |
| conditional | pacificaría | pacificarías | pacificaría | pacificaríamos | pacificaríais | pacificarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | pacifique | pacifiquestú pacifiquésvos2 | pacifique | pacifiquemos | pacifiquéis | pacifiquen | |
| imperfect (ra) | pacificara | pacificaras | pacificara | pacificáramos | pacificarais | pacificaran | |
| imperfect (se) | pacificase | pacificases | pacificase | pacificásemos | pacificaseis | pacificasen | |
| future1 | pacificare | pacificares | pacificare | pacificáremos | pacificareis | pacificaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | pacificatú pacificávos | pacifique | pacifiquemos | pacificad | pacifiquen | ||
| negative | no pacifiques | no pacifique | no pacifiquemos | no pacifiquéis | no pacifiquen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of pacificar (c-qu alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| with infinitive pacificar | |||||||
| dative | pacificarme | pacificarte | pacificarle, pacificarse | pacificarnos | pacificaros | pacificarles, pacificarse | |
| accusative | pacificarme | pacificarte | pacificarlo, pacificarla, pacificarse | pacificarnos | pacificaros | pacificarlos, pacificarlas, pacificarse | |
| with gerund pacificando | |||||||
| dative | pacificándome | pacificándote | pacificándole, pacificándose | pacificándonos | pacificándoos | pacificándoles, pacificándose | |
| accusative | pacificándome | pacificándote | pacificándolo, pacificándola, pacificándose | pacificándonos | pacificándoos | pacificándolos, pacificándolas, pacificándose | |
| with informal second-person singular tú imperative pacifica | |||||||
| dative | pacifícame | pacifícate | pacifícale | pacifícanos | not used | pacifícales | |
| accusative | pacifícame | pacifícate | pacifícalo, pacifícala | pacifícanos | not used | pacifícalos, pacifícalas | |
| with informal second-person singular vos imperative pacificá | |||||||
| dative | pacificame | pacificate | pacificale | pacificanos | not used | pacificales | |
| accusative | pacificame | pacificate | pacificalo, pacificala | pacificanos | not used | pacificalos, pacificalas | |
| with formal second-person singular imperative pacifique | |||||||
| dative | pacifíqueme | not used | pacifíquele, pacifíquese | pacifíquenos | not used | pacifíqueles | |
| accusative | pacifíqueme | not used | pacifíquelo, pacifíquela, pacifíquese | pacifíquenos | not used | pacifíquelos, pacifíquelas | |
| with first-person plural imperative pacifiquemos | |||||||
| dative | not used | pacifiquémoste | pacifiquémosle | pacifiquémonos | pacifiquémoos | pacifiquémosles | |
| accusative | not used | pacifiquémoste | pacifiquémoslo, pacifiquémosla | pacifiquémonos | pacifiquémoos | pacifiquémoslos, pacifiquémoslas | |
| with informal second-person plural imperative pacificad | |||||||
| dative | pacificadme | not used | pacificadle | pacificadnos | pacificaos | pacificadles | |
| accusative | pacificadme | not used | pacificadlo, pacificadla | pacificadnos | pacificaos | pacificadlos, pacificadlas | |
| with formal second-person plural imperative pacifiquen | |||||||
| dative | pacifíquenme | not used | pacifíquenle | pacifíquennos | not used | pacifíquenles, pacifíquense | |
| accusative | pacifíquenme | not used | pacifíquenlo, pacifíquenla | pacifíquennos | not used | pacifíquenlos, pacifíquenlas, pacifíquense | |
Related terms
- paz
Further reading
- “pacificar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014