atisbar
Spanish
Etymology
Unknown, perhaps related to avistar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /atisˈbaɾ/ [a.t̪izˈβ̞aɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: a‧tis‧bar
Verb
atisbar (first-person singular present atisbo, first-person singular preterite atisbé, past participle atisbado)
- to spy on
- to watch, observe
- to glimpse, see confusedly
- Synonyms: entrever, vislumbrar
- 2022 July 12, Victoria Torres Benayas, “Las claves de una ola de calor que desafía todos los récords de intensidad, extensión y duración”, in El País:
- El domingo alcanzó al resto de España y tal va a ser su persistencia que ni siquiera se atisba un final claro.
- On Sunday it reached the rest of the Spain and it'll be so persistent that you can barely glimpse its end.
Conjugation
Conjugation of atisbar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | |||||||
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gerund | |||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | |||||||
plural | |||||||
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 | vos | tú||||||
imperfect | |||||||
preterite | |||||||
future | |||||||
conditional | |||||||
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | vos2 | tú||||||
imperfect (ra) | |||||||
imperfect (se) | |||||||
future1 | |||||||
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | vos | tú||||||
negative | no atisbes | no atisbe | no atisbemos | no atisbéis | no atisben |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of atisbar
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 | |||||||
dative | , | , | |||||
accusative | , , | , , | |||||
with gerund | |||||||
dative | , | , | |||||
accusative | , , | , , | |||||
with informal second-person singular tú imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
with informal second-person singular vos imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
with formal second-person singular imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | , | not used | ||||
accusative | not used | , , | not used | , | |||
with first-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
with informal second-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
with formal second-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | not used | , | ||||
accusative | not used | , | not used | , , |
Derived terms
- atisbo
Further reading
- “atisbar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014