retractar
Portuguese
Verb
retractar (first-person singular present retracto, first-person singular preterite retractei, past participle retractado)
- Superseded spelling of retratar. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)
Conjugation
Conjugation of retractar (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 | retractar | |||||
Personal | retractar | retractares | retractar | retractarmos | retractardes | retractarem |
Gerund | ||||||
retractando | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | retractado | retractados | ||||
Feminine | retractada | retractadas | ||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | retracto | retractas | retracta | retractamos | retractais | retractam |
Imperfect | retractava | retractavas | retractava | retractávamos | retractáveis | retractavam |
Preterite | retractei | retractaste | retractou | retractamos1, retractámos2 | retractastes | retractaram |
Pluperfect | retractara | retractaras | retractara | retractáramos | retractáreis | retractaram |
Future | retractarei | retractarás | retractará | retractaremos | retractareis | retractarão |
Conditional | ||||||
retractaria | retractarias | retractaria | retractaríamos | retractaríeis | retractariam | |
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | retracte | retractes | retracte | retractemos | retracteis | retractem |
Imperfect | retractasse | retractasses | retractasse | retractássemos | retractásseis | retractassem |
Future | retractar | retractares | retractar | retractarmos | retractardes | retractarem |
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | retracta | retracte | retractemos | retractai | retractem | |
Negative (não) | não retractes | não retracte | não retractemos | não retracteis | não retractem |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin retracto, retractare.
Verb
retractar (first-person singular present retracto, first-person singular preterite retracté, past participle retractado)
- to retract, to take back (one's words)
- (reflexive) to retract, to recant, to take back (one's words)
Conjugation
Conjugation of retractar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | retractar | ||||||
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gerund | retractando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | retractado | retractada | |||||
plural | retractados | retractadas | |||||
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 | retracto | retractastú retractásvos | retracta | retractamos | retractáis | retractan | |
imperfect | retractaba | retractabas | retractaba | retractábamos | retractabais | retractaban | |
preterite | retracté | retractaste | retractó | retractamos | retractasteis | retractaron | |
future | retractaré | retractarás | retractará | retractaremos | retractaréis | retractarán | |
conditional | retractaría | retractarías | retractaría | retractaríamos | retractaríais | retractarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | retracte | retractestú retractésvos2 | retracte | retractemos | retractéis | retracten | |
imperfect (ra) | retractara | retractaras | retractara | retractáramos | retractarais | retractaran | |
imperfect (se) | retractase | retractases | retractase | retractásemos | retractaseis | retractasen | |
future1 | retractare | retractares | retractare | retractáremos | retractareis | retractaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | retractatú retractávos | retracte | retractemos | retractad | retracten | ||
negative | no retractes | no retracte | no retractemos | no retractéis | no retracten |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of retractar
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 retractar | |||||||
dative | retractarme | retractarte | retractarle, retractarse | retractarnos | retractaros | retractarles, retractarse | |
accusative | retractarme | retractarte | retractarlo, retractarla, retractarse | retractarnos | retractaros | retractarlos, retractarlas, retractarse | |
with gerund retractando | |||||||
dative | retractándome | retractándote | retractándole, retractándose | retractándonos | retractándoos | retractándoles, retractándose | |
accusative | retractándome | retractándote | retractándolo, retractándola, retractándose | retractándonos | retractándoos | retractándolos, retractándolas, retractándose | |
with informal second-person singular tú imperative retracta | |||||||
dative | retráctame | retráctate | retráctale | retráctanos | not used | retráctales | |
accusative | retráctame | retráctate | retráctalo, retráctala | retráctanos | not used | retráctalos, retráctalas | |
with informal second-person singular vos imperative retractá | |||||||
dative | retractame | retractate | retractale | retractanos | not used | retractales | |
accusative | retractame | retractate | retractalo, retractala | retractanos | not used | retractalos, retractalas | |
with formal second-person singular imperative retracte | |||||||
dative | retrácteme | not used | retráctele, retráctese | retráctenos | not used | retrácteles | |
accusative | retrácteme | not used | retráctelo, retráctela, retráctese | retráctenos | not used | retráctelos, retráctelas | |
with first-person plural imperative retractemos | |||||||
dative | not used | retractémoste | retractémosle | retractémonos | retractémoos | retractémosles | |
accusative | not used | retractémoste | retractémoslo, retractémosla | retractémonos | retractémoos | retractémoslos, retractémoslas | |
with informal second-person plural imperative retractad | |||||||
dative | retractadme | not used | retractadle | retractadnos | retractaos | retractadles | |
accusative | retractadme | not used | retractadlo, retractadla | retractadnos | retractaos | retractadlos, retractadlas | |
with formal second-person plural imperative retracten | |||||||
dative | retráctenme | not used | retráctenle | retráctennos | not used | retráctenles, retráctense | |
accusative | retráctenme | not used | retráctenlo, retráctenla | retráctennos | not used | retráctenlos, retráctenlas, retráctense |
Related terms
- retractable
- retractación
- retracción
- retraer
Further reading
- “retractar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014