tunar
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /tuˈna(ʁ)/ [tuˈna(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /tuˈna(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /tuˈna(ʁ)/ [tuˈna(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /tuˈna(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tuˈnaɾ/
Etymology 1
From the French phrase roi de Thunes (“King of Tunis”), used to refer to vagabonds. More at Thune.[1]
Verb
tunar (first-person singular present tuno, first-person singular preterite tunei, past participle tunado)
- to be idle or lazy
- Synonyms: vadiar, vagabundar, vagabundear
- inflection of tunar:
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive
- first/third-person singular personal infinitive
Conjugation
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 | tunar | |||||
Personal | tunar | tunares | tunar | tunarmos | tunardes | tunarem |
Gerund | ||||||
tunando | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | tunado | tunados | ||||
Feminine | tunada | tunadas | ||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | tuno | tunas | tuna | tunamos | tunais | tunam |
Imperfect | tunava | tunavas | tunava | tunávamos | tunáveis | tunavam |
Preterite | tunei | tunaste | tunou | tunamos1, tunámos2 | tunastes | tunaram |
Pluperfect | tunara | tunaras | tunara | tunáramos | tunáreis | tunaram |
Future | tunarei | tunarás | tunará | tunaremos | tunareis | tunarão |
Conditional | ||||||
tunaria | tunarias | tunaria | tunaríamos | tunaríeis | tunariam | |
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | tune | tunes | tune | tunemos | tuneis | tunem |
Imperfect | tunasse | tunasses | tunasse | tunássemos | tunásseis | tunassem |
Future | tunar | tunares | tunar | tunarmos | tunardes | tunarem |
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | tuna | tune | tunemos | tunai | tunem | |
Negative (não) | não tunes | não tune | não tunemos | não tuneis | não tunem |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Etymology 2
From English to tune (“to adjust a mechanical, electric or electronic device”).
Verb
tunar (first-person singular present tuno, first-person singular preterite tunei, past participle tunado)
- to tune an automobile; to engage in car tuning
- inflection of tunar:
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive
- first/third-person singular personal infinitive
Conjugation
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 | tunar | |||||
Personal | tunar | tunares | tunar | tunarmos | tunardes | tunarem |
Gerund | ||||||
tunando | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | tunado | tunados | ||||
Feminine | tunada | tunadas | ||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | tuno | tunas | tuna | tunamos | tunais | tunam |
Imperfect | tunava | tunavas | tunava | tunávamos | tunáveis | tunavam |
Preterite | tunei | tunaste | tunou | tunamos1, tunámos2 | tunastes | tunaram |
Pluperfect | tunara | tunaras | tunara | tunáramos | tunáreis | tunaram |
Future | tunarei | tunarás | tunará | tunaremos | tunareis | tunarão |
Conditional | ||||||
tunaria | tunarias | tunaria | tunaríamos | tunaríeis | tunariam | |
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | tune | tunes | tune | tunemos | tuneis | tunem |
Imperfect | tunasse | tunasses | tunasse | tunássemos | tunásseis | tunassem |
Future | tunar | tunares | tunar | tunarmos | tunardes | tunarem |
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | tuna | tune | tunemos | tunai | tunem | |
Negative (não) | não tunes | não tune | não tunemos | não tuneis | não tunem |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
References
- Beauquier, Vocabulaire étymologique des provincialismes usités dans le département du Doubs
Romanian
Etymology
tun + -ar
Noun
tunar m (plural tunari)
- gunner
Declension
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) tunar | tunarul | (niște) tunari | tunarii |
genitive/dative | (unui) tunar | tunarului | (unor) tunari | tunarilor |
vocative | tunarule | tunarilor |
Spanish
Etymology
From tuno + -ar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tuˈnaɾ/ [t̪uˈnaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: tu‧nar
Verb
tunar (first-person singular present tuno, first-person singular preterite tuné, past participle tunado)
- (intransitive) to loaf; to bum around
Conjugation
infinitive | tunar | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | tunando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | tunado | tunada | |||||
plural | tunados | tunadas | |||||
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 | tuno | tunastú tunásvos | tuna | tunamos | tunáis | tunan | |
imperfect | tunaba | tunabas | tunaba | tunábamos | tunabais | tunaban | |
preterite | tuné | tunaste | tunó | tunamos | tunasteis | tunaron | |
future | tunaré | tunarás | tunará | tunaremos | tunaréis | tunarán | |
conditional | tunaría | tunarías | tunaría | tunaríamos | tunaríais | tunarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | tune | tunestú tunésvos2 | tune | tunemos | tunéis | tunen | |
imperfect (ra) | tunara | tunaras | tunara | tunáramos | tunarais | tunaran | |
imperfect (se) | tunase | tunases | tunase | tunásemos | tunaseis | tunasen | |
future1 | tunare | tunares | tunare | tunáremos | tunareis | tunaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | tunatú tunávos | tune | tunemos | tunad | tunen | ||
negative | no tunes | no tune | no tunemos | no tunéis | no tunen |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Further reading
- “tunar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014