aclaparar
Catalan
Verb
aclaparar (first-person singular present aclaparo, past participle aclaparat)
- to overwhelm, to crush
- 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 7, in La pell freda, La Campana:
- Per molt que m'ho pregunto, per molt que m'interrogo, només puc constatar una evidència espantosa que tot ho aclapara: monstres, monstres i més monstres.
- However much I wonder, however much I ask myself questions, I can only discover one dreadful piece of evidence which crushes all else: monsters, monsters, and more monsters.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of aclaparar (first conjugation)
| infinitive | aclaparar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | aclaparant | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | aclaparat | aclaparada | |||||
| plural | aclaparats | aclaparades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè | nosaltres nós | vosaltres vós | ells/elles vostès | |
| present | aclaparo | aclapares | aclapara | aclaparem | aclapareu | aclaparen | |
| imperfect | aclaparava | aclaparaves | aclaparava | aclaparàvem | aclaparàveu | aclaparaven | |
| future | aclapararé | aclapararàs | aclapararà | aclapararem | aclaparareu | aclapararan | |
| preterite | aclaparí | aclaparares | aclaparà | aclaparàrem | aclaparàreu | aclapararen | |
| conditional | aclapararia | aclapararies | aclapararia | aclapararíem | aclapararíeu | aclapararien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè | nosaltres nós | vosaltres vós | ells/elles vostès | |
| present | aclapari | aclaparis | aclapari | aclaparem | aclapareu | aclaparin | |
| imperfect | aclaparés | aclaparessis | aclaparés | aclaparéssim | aclaparéssiu | aclaparessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós | vostès | |
| — | aclapara | aclapari | aclaparem | aclapareu | aclaparin | ||
Synonyms
- abassegar