amartellar
Catalan
Etymology
From a- + martell (“hammer [of a gun]”) + -ar.
Verb
amartellar (first-person singular present amartello, first-person singular preterite amartellí, past participle amartellat)
- (transitive) (of firearms) to cock
- 2022 February 12, Joan Garí, “Trenta anys sense Joan Fuster”, in El País, Sota el volcà:
- Va ser, com ell mateix va pregonar de Bertrand Russell, un desinfectant moral, i va amartellar una arma formidable contra tota mena de tòpics[.]
- He was, as he himself said of Bertrand Russel, a moral disinfectant, and he cocked a formidable firearm at all manner of topics[.]
Conjugation
Conjugation of amartellar (first conjugation)
| infinitive | amartellar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | amartellant | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | amartellat | amartellada | |||||
| plural | amartellats | amartellades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | amartello | amartelles | amartella | amartellem | amartelleu | amartellen | |
| imperfect | amartellava | amartellaves | amartellava | amartellàvem | amartellàveu | amartellaven | |
| future | amartellaré | amartellaràs | amartellarà | amartellarem | amartellareu | amartellaran | |
| preterite | amartellí | amartellares | amartellà | amartellàrem | amartellàreu | amartellaren | |
| conditional | amartellaria | amartellaries | amartellaria | amartellaríem | amartellaríeu | amartellarien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | amartelli | amartellis | amartelli | amartellem | amartelleu | amartellin | |
| imperfect | amartellés | amartellessis | amartellés | amartelléssim | amartelléssiu | amartellessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | amartella | amartelli | amartellem | amartelleu | amartellin | |
| negative (no) | — | no amartellis | no amartelli | no amartellem | no amartelleu | no amartellin | |
Further reading
- “amartellar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025