acobardar
Portuguese
Etymology
From a- + cobarde (“coward”) + -ar.
Verb
acobardar (first-person singular present acobardo, first-person singular preterite acobardei, past participle acobardado)
- to frighten
Conjugation
Conjugation of acobardar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Singular | Plural | |||||
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First-person (eu) | Second-person (tu) | Third-person (ele / ela / você) | First-person (nós) | Second-person (vós) | Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
Infinitive | ||||||
Impersonal | ||||||
Personal | ||||||
Gerund | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | ||||||
Feminine | ||||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | ||||||
Imperfect | ||||||
Preterite | 1, 2 | |||||
Pluperfect | ||||||
Future | ||||||
Conditional | ||||||
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | ||||||
Imperfect | ||||||
Future | ||||||
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | ||||||
Negative (não) | não acobardes | não acobarde | não acobardemos | não acobardeis | não acobardem |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Spanish
Etymology
From a- + cobarde (“coward”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /akobaɾˈdaɾ/ [a.ko.β̞aɾˈð̞aɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: a‧co‧bar‧dar
Verb
acobardar (first-person singular present acobardo, first-person singular preterite acobardé, past participle acobardado)
- (transitive) to daunt, to frighten, to scare
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:asustar
- (reflexive) to be frightened, scared, daunted
- Synonym: asustarse
- (reflexive) to cower
Conjugation
Conjugation of acobardar (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 acobardes | no acobarde | no acobardemos | no acobardéis | no acobarden |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of acobardar
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
- acobardamiento
See also
- achicarse
- ciscarse
Further reading
- “acobardar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014