trabar
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese trave, ultimately from Latin trabs (“beam”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾaˈβaɾ/
Verb
trabar (first-person singular present trabo, first-person singular preterite trabei, past participle trabado)
- (transitive, intransitive) to bite; to grab
- Non teñas medo que este can non traba.
- Don't be afraid, this dog won't bite you.
- 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 89:
- Quando as ditas llandoas creçeren asy como Nozes, ou mais ou menos, traua dellas llogo et apretaas et fendeas ao llongo con canyuete agudo
- when these growths become big as nuts, give or take, grab them readily and squeeze them and cut them open lengthwise with a sharp knife
- Quando as ditas llandoas creçeren asy como Nozes, ou mais ou menos, traua dellas llogo et apretaas et fendeas ao llongo con canyuete agudo
- Synonyms: chanchar, morder, trincar
- (transitive) to fetter
- Synonym: pexar
- (transitive) to obstruct or impede
- (transitive) to fasten, connect or join
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to entangle
Conjugation
Conjugation of trabar
singular | plural | |||||
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person | first | second | third | first | second | third |
Infinitive | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
impersonal | trabar | |||||
personal | trabar | trabares | trabar | trabarmos | trabardes | trabaren |
Gerund | ||||||
trabando | ||||||
Past participle | singular | plural | ||||
masculine | trabado | trabados | ||||
feminine | trabada | trabadas | ||||
Indicative | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
present | trabo | trabas | traba | trabamos | trabades | traban |
imperfect | trababa | trababas | trababa | trababamos | trababades | trababan |
preterite | trabei | trabaches | trabou | trabamos | trabastes | trabaron |
pluperfect | trabara | trabaras | trabara | trabaramos | trabarades | trabaran |
future | trabarei | trabarás | trabará | trabaremos | trabaredes | trabarán |
conditional | trabaría | trabarías | trabaría | trabariamos | trabariades | trabarían |
Subjunctive | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
present | trabe | trabes | trabe | trabemos | trabedes | traben |
preterite | trabase | trabases | trabase | trabásemos | trabásedes | trabasen |
future | trabar | trabares | trabar | trabarmos | trabardes | trabaren |
Imperative | – | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
affirmative | – | traba | trabe | trabemos | trabade | traben |
negative | – | trabes | trabe | trabemos | trabedes | traben |
Derived terms
- trabada
- trabadela
Related terms
- trabe
References
- “travar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “trava” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “trabar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “trabar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “trabar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish
Etymology
From traba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾaˈbaɾ/ [t̪ɾaˈβ̞aɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: tra‧bar
Verb
trabar (first-person singular present trabo, first-person singular preterite trabé, past participle trabado)
- to connect, to join (pieces of wood)
- Synonyms: conectar, juntar
- to obstruct
- Antonym: destrabar
- to hold back
- to fasten
- to thicken (sauce, pudding etc.)
- Synonyms: enganchar, sujetar. agarrar, espesar
- (reflexive) to get caught up, to become entangled
- Synonym: enredarse
- (reflexive) to jam, to get jammed, to get stuck, to seize up
- Synonym: atascarse
Conjugation
Conjugation of trabar (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 trabes | no trabe | no trabemos | no trabéis | no traben |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of trabar
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
- trabarse la lengua
- trabalenguas
- trabapalancas
Further reading
- “trabar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014