permitir
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin permittere.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /peʁ.miˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [peɦ.miˈt͡ʃi(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /peɾ.miˈt͡ʃi(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /peʁ.miˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [peʁ.miˈt͡ʃi(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /peɻ.miˈt͡ʃi(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨɾ.miˈtiɾ/
- (Nordestino) IPA(key): /peχ.mi.ˈti(χ)/
- Hyphenation: per‧mi‧tir
Verb
permitir (first-person singular present permito, first-person singular preterite permiti, past participle permitido)
- to permit, allow, tolerate
- to enable
Conjugation
Conjugation of permitir (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 | permitir | |||||
| Personal | permitir | permitires | permitir | permitirmos | permitirdes | permitirem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| permitindo | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | permitido | permitidos | ||||
| Feminine | permitida | permitidas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | permito | permites | permite | permitimos | permitis | permitem |
| Imperfect | permitia | permitias | permitia | permitíamos | permitíeis | permitiam |
| Preterite | permiti | permitiste | permitiu | permitimos | permitistes | permitiram |
| Pluperfect | permitira | permitiras | permitira | permitíramos | permitíreis | permitiram |
| Future | permitirei | permitirás | permitirá | permitiremos | permitireis | permitirão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| permitiria | permitirias | permitiria | permitiríamos | permitiríeis | permitiriam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | permita | permitas | permita | permitamos | permitais | permitam |
| Imperfect | permitisse | permitisses | permitisse | permitíssemos | permitísseis | permitissem |
| Future | permitir | permitires | permitir | permitirmos | permitirdes | permitirem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | permite | permita | permitamos | permiti | permitam | |
| Negative (não) | não permitas | não permita | não permitamos | não permitais | não permitam | |
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:permitir.
Related terms
- permissão
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin permittere, present active infinitive of permittō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peɾmiˈtiɾ/ [peɾ.miˈt̪iɾ]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -iɾ
- Syllabification: per‧mi‧tir
Verb
permitir (first-person singular present permito, first-person singular preterite permití, past participle permitido)
- to allow, permit
- No les permitieron ir.
- They were not allowed to go.
- Synonym: autorizar
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to afford, to allow
- No puedo permitirme comprarlo.
- I can't allow myself to buy it.
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to indulge in
Usage notes
- Used without a preposition, as is demonstrated in the example above
Conjugation
Conjugation of permitir (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | permitir | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | permitiendo | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | permitido | permitida | |||||
| plural | permitidos | permitidas | |||||
| 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 | permito | permitestú permitísvos | permite | permitimos | permitís | permiten | |
| imperfect | permitía | permitías | permitía | permitíamos | permitíais | permitían | |
| preterite | permití | permitiste | permitió | permitimos | permitisteis | permitieron | |
| future | permitiré | permitirás | permitirá | permitiremos | permitiréis | permitirán | |
| conditional | permitiría | permitirías | permitiría | permitiríamos | permitiríais | permitirían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | permita | permitastú permitásvos2 | permita | permitamos | permitáis | permitan | |
| imperfect (ra) | permitiera | permitieras | permitiera | permitiéramos | permitierais | permitieran | |
| imperfect (se) | permitiese | permitieses | permitiese | permitiésemos | permitieseis | permitiesen | |
| future1 | permitiere | permitieres | permitiere | permitiéremos | permitiereis | permitieren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | permitetú permitívos | permita | permitamos | permitid | permitan | ||
| negative | no permitas | no permita | no permitamos | no permitáis | no permitan | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of permitir
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 permitir | |||||||
| dative | permitirme | permitirte | permitirle, permitirse | permitirnos | permitiros | permitirles, permitirse | |
| accusative | permitirme | permitirte | permitirlo, permitirla, permitirse | permitirnos | permitiros | permitirlos, permitirlas, permitirse | |
| with gerund permitiendo | |||||||
| dative | permitiéndome | permitiéndote | permitiéndole, permitiéndose | permitiéndonos | permitiéndoos | permitiéndoles, permitiéndose | |
| accusative | permitiéndome | permitiéndote | permitiéndolo, permitiéndola, permitiéndose | permitiéndonos | permitiéndoos | permitiéndolos, permitiéndolas, permitiéndose | |
| with informal second-person singular tú imperative permite | |||||||
| dative | permíteme | permítete | permítele | permítenos | not used | permíteles | |
| accusative | permíteme | permítete | permítelo, permítela | permítenos | not used | permítelos, permítelas | |
| with informal second-person singular vos imperative permití | |||||||
| dative | permitime | permitite | permitile | permitinos | not used | permitiles | |
| accusative | permitime | permitite | permitilo, permitila | permitinos | not used | permitilos, permitilas | |
| with formal second-person singular imperative permita | |||||||
| dative | permítame | not used | permítale, permítase | permítanos | not used | permítales | |
| accusative | permítame | not used | permítalo, permítala, permítase | permítanos | not used | permítalos, permítalas | |
| with first-person plural imperative permitamos | |||||||
| dative | not used | permitámoste | permitámosle | permitámonos | permitámoos | permitámosles | |
| accusative | not used | permitámoste | permitámoslo, permitámosla | permitámonos | permitámoos | permitámoslos, permitámoslas | |
| with informal second-person plural imperative permitid | |||||||
| dative | permitidme | not used | permitidle | permitidnos | permitíos | permitidles | |
| accusative | permitidme | not used | permitidlo, permitidla | permitidnos | permitíos | permitidlos, permitidlas | |
| with formal second-person plural imperative permitan | |||||||
| dative | permítanme | not used | permítanle | permítannos | not used | permítanles, permítanse | |
| accusative | permítanme | not used | permítanlo, permítanla | permítannos | not used | permítanlos, permítanlas, permítanse | |
Derived terms
- permitirse
Related terms
- permisión
- permiso
Further reading
- “permitir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014