bifurcar
Portuguese
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *bifurcāre, from Latin bifurcātus.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /bi.fuʁˈka(ʁ)/ [bi.fuhˈka(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /bi.fuɾˈka(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /bi.fuʁˈka(ʁ)/ [bi.fuχˈka(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /bi.fuɻˈka(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /bi.fuɾˈkaɾ/
- Hyphenation: bi‧fur‧car
Verb
bifurcar (first-person singular present bifurco, first-person singular preterite bifurquei, past participle bifurcado)
- (transitive) to bifurcate, to cause to fork off
Conjugation
Conjugation of bifurcar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
| 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 | bifurcar | |||||
| Personal | bifurcar | bifurcares | bifurcar | bifurcarmos | bifurcardes | bifurcarem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| bifurcando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | bifurcado | bifurcados | ||||
| Feminine | bifurcada | bifurcadas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | bifurco | bifurcas | bifurca | bifurcamos | bifurcais | bifurcam |
| Imperfect | bifurcava | bifurcavas | bifurcava | bifurcávamos | bifurcáveis | bifurcavam |
| Preterite | bifurquei | bifurcaste | bifurcou | bifurcamos1, bifurcámos2 | bifurcastes | bifurcaram |
| Pluperfect | bifurcara | bifurcaras | bifurcara | bifurcáramos | bifurcáreis | bifurcaram |
| Future | bifurcarei | bifurcarás | bifurcará | bifurcaremos | bifurcareis | bifurcarão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| bifurcaria | bifurcarias | bifurcaria | bifurcaríamos | bifurcaríeis | bifurcariam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | bifurque | bifurques | bifurque | bifurquemos | bifurqueis | bifurquem |
| Imperfect | bifurcasse | bifurcasses | bifurcasse | bifurcássemos | bifurcásseis | bifurcassem |
| Future | bifurcar | bifurcares | bifurcar | bifurcarmos | bifurcardes | bifurcarem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | bifurca | bifurque | bifurquemos | bifurcai | bifurquem | |
| Negative (não) | não bifurques | não bifurque | não bifurquemos | não bifurqueis | não bifurquem | |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Related terms
- bifurcação
Further reading
- “bifurcar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin bifurcātus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bifuɾˈkaɾ/ [bi.fuɾˈkaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: bi‧fur‧car
Verb
bifurcar (first-person singular present bifurco, first-person singular preterite bifurqué, past participle bifurcado)
- (transitive) to bifurcate, to cause to fork off
- (reflexive) to diverge, fork off
Conjugation
Conjugation of bifurcar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | bifurcar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | bifurcando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | bifurcado | bifurcada | |||||
| plural | bifurcados | bifurcadas | |||||
| 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 | bifurco | bifurcastú bifurcásvos | bifurca | bifurcamos | bifurcáis | bifurcan | |
| imperfect | bifurcaba | bifurcabas | bifurcaba | bifurcábamos | bifurcabais | bifurcaban | |
| preterite | bifurqué | bifurcaste | bifurcó | bifurcamos | bifurcasteis | bifurcaron | |
| future | bifurcaré | bifurcarás | bifurcará | bifurcaremos | bifurcaréis | bifurcarán | |
| conditional | bifurcaría | bifurcarías | bifurcaría | bifurcaríamos | bifurcaríais | bifurcarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | bifurque | bifurquestú bifurquésvos2 | bifurque | bifurquemos | bifurquéis | bifurquen | |
| imperfect (ra) | bifurcara | bifurcaras | bifurcara | bifurcáramos | bifurcarais | bifurcaran | |
| imperfect (se) | bifurcase | bifurcases | bifurcase | bifurcásemos | bifurcaseis | bifurcasen | |
| future1 | bifurcare | bifurcares | bifurcare | bifurcáremos | bifurcareis | bifurcaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | bifurcatú bifurcávos | bifurque | bifurquemos | bifurcad | bifurquen | ||
| negative | no bifurques | no bifurque | no bifurquemos | no bifurquéis | no bifurquen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of bifurcar (c-qu alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| with infinitive bifurcar | |||||||
| dative | bifurcarme | bifurcarte | bifurcarle, bifurcarse | bifurcarnos | bifurcaros | bifurcarles, bifurcarse | |
| accusative | bifurcarme | bifurcarte | bifurcarlo, bifurcarla, bifurcarse | bifurcarnos | bifurcaros | bifurcarlos, bifurcarlas, bifurcarse | |
| with gerund bifurcando | |||||||
| dative | bifurcándome | bifurcándote | bifurcándole, bifurcándose | bifurcándonos | bifurcándoos | bifurcándoles, bifurcándose | |
| accusative | bifurcándome | bifurcándote | bifurcándolo, bifurcándola, bifurcándose | bifurcándonos | bifurcándoos | bifurcándolos, bifurcándolas, bifurcándose | |
| with informal second-person singular tú imperative bifurca | |||||||
| dative | bifúrcame | bifúrcate | bifúrcale | bifúrcanos | not used | bifúrcales | |
| accusative | bifúrcame | bifúrcate | bifúrcalo, bifúrcala | bifúrcanos | not used | bifúrcalos, bifúrcalas | |
| with informal second-person singular vos imperative bifurcá | |||||||
| dative | bifurcame | bifurcate | bifurcale | bifurcanos | not used | bifurcales | |
| accusative | bifurcame | bifurcate | bifurcalo, bifurcala | bifurcanos | not used | bifurcalos, bifurcalas | |
| with formal second-person singular imperative bifurque | |||||||
| dative | bifúrqueme | not used | bifúrquele, bifúrquese | bifúrquenos | not used | bifúrqueles | |
| accusative | bifúrqueme | not used | bifúrquelo, bifúrquela, bifúrquese | bifúrquenos | not used | bifúrquelos, bifúrquelas | |
| with first-person plural imperative bifurquemos | |||||||
| dative | not used | bifurquémoste | bifurquémosle | bifurquémonos | bifurquémoos | bifurquémosles | |
| accusative | not used | bifurquémoste | bifurquémoslo, bifurquémosla | bifurquémonos | bifurquémoos | bifurquémoslos, bifurquémoslas | |
| with informal second-person plural imperative bifurcad | |||||||
| dative | bifurcadme | not used | bifurcadle | bifurcadnos | bifurcaos | bifurcadles | |
| accusative | bifurcadme | not used | bifurcadlo, bifurcadla | bifurcadnos | bifurcaos | bifurcadlos, bifurcadlas | |
| with formal second-person plural imperative bifurquen | |||||||
| dative | bifúrquenme | not used | bifúrquenle | bifúrquennos | not used | bifúrquenles, bifúrquense | |
| accusative | bifúrquenme | not used | bifúrquenlo, bifúrquenla | bifúrquennos | not used | bifúrquenlos, bifúrquenlas, bifúrquense | |
Related terms
- bifurcación
- bifurcador
Further reading
- “bifurcarse”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014