aposentar
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese apousentar, from a- + pousar + -entar.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.po.zẽˈta(ʁ)/ [a.po.zẽˈta(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /a.po.zẽˈta(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /a.po.zẽˈta(ʁ)/ [a.po.zẽˈta(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.po.zẽˈta(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.pu.zẽˈtaɾ/
- Hyphenation: a‧po‧sen‧tar
Verb
aposentar (first-person singular present aposento, first-person singular preterite aposentei, past participle aposentado)
- (transitive, dated) to house, shelter, lodge
- Synonyms: abrigar, albergar
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to retire (leave office)
- Synonym: reformar
Conjugation
Conjugation of aposentar (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 | aposentar | |||||
| Personal | aposentar | aposentares | aposentar | aposentarmos | aposentardes | aposentarem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| aposentando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | aposentado | aposentados | ||||
| Feminine | aposentada | aposentadas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | aposento | aposentas | aposenta | aposentamos | aposentais | aposentam |
| Imperfect | aposentava | aposentavas | aposentava | aposentávamos | aposentáveis | aposentavam |
| Preterite | aposentei | aposentaste | aposentou | aposentamos1, aposentámos2 | aposentastes | aposentaram |
| Pluperfect | aposentara | aposentaras | aposentara | aposentáramos | aposentáreis | aposentaram |
| Future | aposentarei | aposentarás | aposentará | aposentaremos | aposentareis | aposentarão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| aposentaria | aposentarias | aposentaria | aposentaríamos | aposentaríeis | aposentariam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | aposente | aposentes | aposente | aposentemos | aposenteis | aposentem |
| Imperfect | aposentasse | aposentasses | aposentasse | aposentássemos | aposentásseis | aposentassem |
| Future | aposentar | aposentares | aposentar | aposentarmos | aposentardes | aposentarem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | aposenta | aposente | aposentemos | aposentai | aposentem | |
| Negative (não) | não aposentes | não aposente | não aposentemos | não aposenteis | não aposentem | |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aposenˈtaɾ/ [a.po.sẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: a‧po‧sen‧tar
Verb
aposentar (first-person singular present aposento, first-person singular preterite aposenté, past participle aposentado)
- (transitive) to lodge, put up
- aposentar a alguien
- put someone up
- (reflexive) to shack up; to stay as a guest; to lodge
- me voy a aposentar en casa de Lili
- I'm going to shack up at Lili's place.
Conjugation
Conjugation of aposentar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | aposentar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | aposentando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | aposentado | aposentada | |||||
| plural | aposentados | aposentadas | |||||
| 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 | aposento | aposentastú aposentásvos | aposenta | aposentamos | aposentáis | aposentan | |
| imperfect | aposentaba | aposentabas | aposentaba | aposentábamos | aposentabais | aposentaban | |
| preterite | aposenté | aposentaste | aposentó | aposentamos | aposentasteis | aposentaron | |
| future | aposentaré | aposentarás | aposentará | aposentaremos | aposentaréis | aposentarán | |
| conditional | aposentaría | aposentarías | aposentaría | aposentaríamos | aposentaríais | aposentarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | aposente | aposentestú aposentésvos2 | aposente | aposentemos | aposentéis | aposenten | |
| imperfect (ra) | aposentara | aposentaras | aposentara | aposentáramos | aposentarais | aposentaran | |
| imperfect (se) | aposentase | aposentases | aposentase | aposentásemos | aposentaseis | aposentasen | |
| future1 | aposentare | aposentares | aposentare | aposentáremos | aposentareis | aposentaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | aposentatú aposentávos | aposente | aposentemos | aposentad | aposenten | ||
| negative | no aposentes | no aposente | no aposentemos | no aposentéis | no aposenten | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of aposentar
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 aposentar | |||||||
| dative | aposentarme | aposentarte | aposentarle, aposentarse | aposentarnos | aposentaros | aposentarles, aposentarse | |
| accusative | aposentarme | aposentarte | aposentarlo, aposentarla, aposentarse | aposentarnos | aposentaros | aposentarlos, aposentarlas, aposentarse | |
| with gerund aposentando | |||||||
| dative | aposentándome | aposentándote | aposentándole, aposentándose | aposentándonos | aposentándoos | aposentándoles, aposentándose | |
| accusative | aposentándome | aposentándote | aposentándolo, aposentándola, aposentándose | aposentándonos | aposentándoos | aposentándolos, aposentándolas, aposentándose | |
| with informal second-person singular tú imperative aposenta | |||||||
| dative | aposéntame | aposéntate | aposéntale | aposéntanos | not used | aposéntales | |
| accusative | aposéntame | aposéntate | aposéntalo, aposéntala | aposéntanos | not used | aposéntalos, aposéntalas | |
| with informal second-person singular vos imperative aposentá | |||||||
| dative | aposentame | aposentate | aposentale | aposentanos | not used | aposentales | |
| accusative | aposentame | aposentate | aposentalo, aposentala | aposentanos | not used | aposentalos, aposentalas | |
| with formal second-person singular imperative aposente | |||||||
| dative | aposénteme | not used | aposéntele, aposéntese | aposéntenos | not used | aposénteles | |
| accusative | aposénteme | not used | aposéntelo, aposéntela, aposéntese | aposéntenos | not used | aposéntelos, aposéntelas | |
| with first-person plural imperative aposentemos | |||||||
| dative | not used | aposentémoste | aposentémosle | aposentémonos | aposentémoos | aposentémosles | |
| accusative | not used | aposentémoste | aposentémoslo, aposentémosla | aposentémonos | aposentémoos | aposentémoslos, aposentémoslas | |
| with informal second-person plural imperative aposentad | |||||||
| dative | aposentadme | not used | aposentadle | aposentadnos | aposentaos | aposentadles | |
| accusative | aposentadme | not used | aposentadlo, aposentadla | aposentadnos | aposentaos | aposentadlos, aposentadlas | |
| with formal second-person plural imperative aposenten | |||||||
| dative | aposéntenme | not used | aposéntenle | aposéntennos | not used | aposéntenles, aposéntense | |
| accusative | aposéntenme | not used | aposéntenlo, aposéntenla | aposéntennos | not used | aposéntenlos, aposéntenlas, aposéntense | |
Derived terms
- aposentador
- aposento
Further reading
- “aposentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014