pousar

pousar

Galician

Alternative forms

• apousar

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pousar, from Latin pausāre. Cognate of pausar, a borrowed doublet.

Compare Portuguese pousar and Spanish posar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /powˈsaɾ/

Verb

pousar (first-person singular present pouso, first-person singular preterite pousei, past participle pousado)

1. (intransitive) to land, alight
2. (transitive) to place
3. (intransitive) to lodge, stay, overnight
   • 1275, José-Luis Novo Cazón (ed.), El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500). A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 259:

     este Johan Arias foynos pousar enun nosso lugar, que chaman Santome de Sumeo, cum omes e cum armas e filounolo forçadamente e sen dereyto e e morou y un mes e tomounolo e filounos quanto y achou

     this Xoán Arias came to stay in a hamlet of us, called Santomé de Sumeo, with men and weapons, and he took it from us forcibly and lawlessly, and he dwelt there for a month and he took and had everything he found there

4. (intransitive) to stop

   Pousa, fedello! ― Stop it, brat!

5. (transitive) to unload

Conjugation

Conjugation of pousar

	singular			plural
person	first	second	third	first	second	third
Infinitive	eu	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
impersonal	pousar
personal	pousar	pousares	pousar	pousarmos	pousardes	pousaren
Gerund
	pousando
Past participle	singular			plural
masculine	pousado			pousados
feminine	pousada			pousadas
Indicative	eu	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
present	pouso	pousas	pousa	pousamos	pousades	pousan
imperfect	pousaba	pousabas	pousaba	pousabamos	pousabades	pousaban
preterite	pousei	pousaches	pousou	pousamos	pousastes	pousaron
pluperfect	pousara	pousaras	pousara	pousaramos	pousarades	pousaran
future	pousarei	pousarás	pousará	pousaremos	pousaredes	pousarán
conditional	pousaría	pousarías	pousaría	pousariamos	pousariades	pousarían
Subjunctive	eu	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
present	pouse	pouses	pouse	pousemos	pousedes	pousen
preterite	pousase	pousases	pousase	pousásemos	pousásedes	pousasen
future	pousar	pousares	pousar	pousarmos	pousardes	pousaren
Imperative	–	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
affirmative	–	pousa	pouse	pousemos	pousade	pousen
negative	–	pouses	pouse	pousemos	pousedes	pousen

Derived terms

• pousada
• pousadoiro
• Pousadoiro
• Pousafoles
• Pousiño
• Pouso
• repousar

References

• “pousar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “pousar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “pousar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pousar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pousar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• poisar

Etymology

Inherited from Old Portuguese pousar, from Latin pausāre. Doublet of pausar and posar. Compare Galician pousar and Spanish posar.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /po(w)ˈza(ʁ)/ [po(ʊ̯)ˈza(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /po(w)ˈza(ʁ)/ [po(ʊ̯)ˈza(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /po(w)ˈza(ɾ)/ [po(ʊ̯)ˈza(ɾ)]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /po(w)ˈza(ʁ)/ [po(ʊ̯)ˈza(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /po(w)ˈza(ɻ)/ [po(ʊ̯)ˈza(ɻ)]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /po(w)ˈzaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /po(w)ˈzaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /poˈzaɾ/

• Hyphenation: pou‧sar

Verb

pousar (first-person singular present pouso, first-person singular preterite pousei, past participle pousado)

1. to land, alight
2. (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) to sleep over

   Pousei no Pedro ontem e nós acabamos ficando. ― I slept over Peter's last night and we ended up making out.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of pousar (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	pousar
Personal	pousar	pousares	pousar	pousarmos	pousardes	pousarem
Gerund
	pousando
Past participle
Masculine	pousado			pousados
Feminine	pousada			pousadas
Indicative
Present	pouso	pousas	pousa	pousamos	pousais	pousam
Imperfect	pousava	pousavas	pousava	pousávamos	pousáveis	pousavam
Preterite	pousei	pousaste	pousou	pousamos1, pousámos2	pousastes	pousaram
Pluperfect	pousara	pousaras	pousara	pousáramos	pousáreis	pousaram
Future	pousarei	pousarás	pousará	pousaremos	pousareis	pousarão
Conditional
	pousaria	pousarias	pousaria	pousaríamos	pousaríeis	pousariam
Subjunctive
Present	pouse	pouses	pouse	pousemos	pouseis	pousem
Imperfect	pousasse	pousasses	pousasse	pousássemos	pousásseis	pousassem
Future	pousar	pousares	pousar	pousarmos	pousardes	pousarem
Imperative
Affirmative		pousa	pouse	pousemos	pousai	pousem
Negative (não)		não pouses	não pouse	não pousemos	não pouseis	não pousem

¹Brazil.
²Portugal.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pousar.