capotar
Portuguese
Etymology
From capota + -ar.
Verb
capotar (first-person singular present capoto, first-person singular preterite capotei, past participle capotado)
- to overturn (to turn over, capsize)
- O carro capotou.
- The car turned over.
- (figuratively) to fall asleep suddenly
- Capotei enquanto assistia ao filme.
- I fell asleep while I watched the movie.
Conjugation
Conjugation of capotar (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 | capotar | |||||
| Personal | capotar | capotares | capotar | capotarmos | capotardes | capotarem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| capotando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | capotado | capotados | ||||
| Feminine | capotada | capotadas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | capoto | capotas | capota | capotamos | capotais | capotam |
| Imperfect | capotava | capotavas | capotava | capotávamos | capotáveis | capotavam |
| Preterite | capotei | capotaste | capotou | capotamos1, capotámos2 | capotastes | capotaram |
| Pluperfect | capotara | capotaras | capotara | capotáramos | capotáreis | capotaram |
| Future | capotarei | capotarás | capotará | capotaremos | capotareis | capotarão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| capotaria | capotarias | capotaria | capotaríamos | capotaríeis | capotariam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | capote | capotes | capote | capotemos | capoteis | capotem |
| Imperfect | capotasse | capotasses | capotasse | capotássemos | capotásseis | capotassem |
| Future | capotar | capotares | capotar | capotarmos | capotardes | capotarem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | capota | capote | capotemos | capotai | capotem | |
| Negative (não) | não capotes | não capote | não capotemos | não capoteis | não capotem | |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Spanish
Etymology
From French capoter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kapoˈtaɾ/ [ka.poˈt̪aɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: ca‧po‧tar
Verb
capotar (first-person singular present capoto, first-person singular preterite capoté, past participle capotado)
- (aeronautics) to nose (have the nose hit the ground)
Conjugation
Conjugation of capotar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | capotar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | capotando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | capotado | capotada | |||||
| plural | capotados | capotadas | |||||
| 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 | capoto | capotastú capotásvos | capota | capotamos | capotáis | capotan | |
| imperfect | capotaba | capotabas | capotaba | capotábamos | capotabais | capotaban | |
| preterite | capoté | capotaste | capotó | capotamos | capotasteis | capotaron | |
| future | capotaré | capotarás | capotará | capotaremos | capotaréis | capotarán | |
| conditional | capotaría | capotarías | capotaría | capotaríamos | capotaríais | capotarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | capote | capotestú capotésvos2 | capote | capotemos | capotéis | capoten | |
| imperfect (ra) | capotara | capotaras | capotara | capotáramos | capotarais | capotaran | |
| imperfect (se) | capotase | capotases | capotase | capotásemos | capotaseis | capotasen | |
| future1 | capotare | capotares | capotare | capotáremos | capotareis | capotaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | capotatú capotávos | capote | capotemos | capotad | capoten | ||
| negative | no capotes | no capote | no capotemos | no capotéis | no capoten | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Further reading
- “capotar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014