sortear
Portuguese
Verb
sortear (first-person singular present sorteio, first-person singular preterite sorteei, past participle sorteado)
- to draw (to determine the result of a lottery)
- to choose an option randomly
Conjugation
Conjugation of sortear (e becomes ei when stressed) (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 | sortear | |||||
Personal | sortear | sorteares | sortear | sortearmos | sorteardes | sortearem |
Gerund | ||||||
sorteando | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | sorteado | sorteados | ||||
Feminine | sorteada | sorteadas | ||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | sorteio | sorteias | sorteia | sorteamos | sorteais | sorteiam |
Imperfect | sorteava | sorteavas | sorteava | sorteávamos | sorteáveis | sorteavam |
Preterite | sorteei | sorteaste | sorteou | sorteamos1, sorteámos2 | sorteastes | sortearam |
Pluperfect | sorteara | sortearas | sorteara | sorteáramos | sorteáreis | sortearam |
Future | sortearei | sortearás | sorteará | sortearemos | sorteareis | sortearão |
Conditional | ||||||
sortearia | sortearias | sortearia | sortearíamos | sortearíeis | sorteariam | |
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | sorteie | sorteies | sorteie | sorteemos | sorteeis | sorteiem |
Imperfect | sorteasse | sorteasses | sorteasse | sorteássemos | sorteásseis | sorteassem |
Future | sortear | sorteares | sortear | sortearmos | sorteardes | sortearem |
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | sorteia | sorteie | sorteemos | sorteai | sorteiem | |
Negative (não) | não sorteies | não sorteie | não sorteemos | não sorteeis | não sorteiem |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin sors, sortis. Compare English sort.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soɾteˈaɾ/ [soɾ.t̪eˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: sor‧te‧ar
Verb
sortear (first-person singular present sorteo, first-person singular preterite sorteé, past participle sorteado)
- to raffle, to raffle off, to draw lots
- Synonym: rifar
- to get around, to avoid, to come around (an obstacle or a danger), to circumvent
- Synonyms: esquivar, evitar
Conjugation
Conjugation of sortear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | sortear | ||||||
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gerund | sorteando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | sorteado | sorteada | |||||
plural | sorteados | sorteadas | |||||
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 | sorteo | sorteastú sorteásvos | sortea | sorteamos | sorteáis | sortean | |
imperfect | sorteaba | sorteabas | sorteaba | sorteábamos | sorteabais | sorteaban | |
preterite | sorteé | sorteaste | sorteó | sorteamos | sorteasteis | sortearon | |
future | sortearé | sortearás | sorteará | sortearemos | sortearéis | sortearán | |
conditional | sortearía | sortearías | sortearía | sortearíamos | sortearíais | sortearían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | sortee | sorteestú sorteésvos2 | sortee | sorteemos | sorteéis | sorteen | |
imperfect (ra) | sorteara | sortearas | sorteara | sorteáramos | sortearais | sortearan | |
imperfect (se) | sortease | sorteases | sortease | sorteásemos | sorteaseis | sorteasen | |
future1 | sorteare | sorteares | sorteare | sorteáremos | sorteareis | sortearen | |
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | sorteatú sorteávos | sortee | sorteemos | sortead | sorteen | ||
negative | no sortees | no sortee | no sorteemos | no sorteéis | no sorteen |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of sortear
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 sortear | |||||||
dative | sortearme | sortearte | sortearle, sortearse | sortearnos | sortearos | sortearles, sortearse | |
accusative | sortearme | sortearte | sortearlo, sortearla, sortearse | sortearnos | sortearos | sortearlos, sortearlas, sortearse | |
with gerund sorteando | |||||||
dative | sorteándome | sorteándote | sorteándole, sorteándose | sorteándonos | sorteándoos | sorteándoles, sorteándose | |
accusative | sorteándome | sorteándote | sorteándolo, sorteándola, sorteándose | sorteándonos | sorteándoos | sorteándolos, sorteándolas, sorteándose | |
with informal second-person singular tú imperative sortea | |||||||
dative | sortéame | sortéate | sortéale | sortéanos | not used | sortéales | |
accusative | sortéame | sortéate | sortéalo, sortéala | sortéanos | not used | sortéalos, sortéalas | |
with informal second-person singular vos imperative sorteá | |||||||
dative | sorteame | sorteate | sorteale | sorteanos | not used | sorteales | |
accusative | sorteame | sorteate | sortealo, sorteala | sorteanos | not used | sortealos, sortealas | |
with formal second-person singular imperative sortee | |||||||
dative | sortéeme | not used | sortéele, sortéese | sortéenos | not used | sortéeles | |
accusative | sortéeme | not used | sortéelo, sortéela, sortéese | sortéenos | not used | sortéelos, sortéelas | |
with first-person plural imperative sorteemos | |||||||
dative | not used | sorteémoste | sorteémosle | sorteémonos | sorteémoos | sorteémosles | |
accusative | not used | sorteémoste | sorteémoslo, sorteémosla | sorteémonos | sorteémoos | sorteémoslos, sorteémoslas | |
with informal second-person plural imperative sortead | |||||||
dative | sorteadme | not used | sorteadle | sorteadnos | sorteaos | sorteadles | |
accusative | sorteadme | not used | sorteadlo, sorteadla | sorteadnos | sorteaos | sorteadlos, sorteadlas | |
with formal second-person plural imperative sorteen | |||||||
dative | sortéenme | not used | sortéenle | sortéennos | not used | sortéenles, sortéense | |
accusative | sortéenme | not used | sortéenlo, sortéenla | sortéennos | not used | sortéenlos, sortéenlas, sortéense |
Derived terms
- sorteo
Related terms
- suerte
See also
- esquivar
- vadear
Further reading
- “sortear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014