assistir
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin assistere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.
Pronunciation
Verb
assistir (first-person singular present assisteixo, first-person singular preterite assistí, past participle assistit)
- to attend
Conjugation
Conjugation of assistir (third conjugation, with -eix-)
Related terms
Further reading
- “assistir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “assistir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “assistir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “assistir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Occitan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio (Béarn): (file)
Verb
assistir
- to attend
Conjugation
Conjugation of assistir in Lengadocian (Central Occitan)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | assistir | ?er assistit | |||||
| past participle | assistit | — | |||||
| gerund | assistissent | ?ent assistit | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ieu | tu | el | nosautres | vosautres | eles | |
| present | assistissi | assistisses | assistís | assistissèm | assistissètz | assistisson | |
| imperfect | assistissiái | assistissiás | assistissiá | assistissiam | assistissiatz | assistissián | |
| preterite | assistiguèri | assistiguères | assistiguèt | assistiguèrem | assistiguèretz | assistiguèron | |
| future | assistirai | assistiràs | assistirà | assistirem | assistiretz | assistiràn | |
| conditional | assistiriái | assistiriás | assistiriá | assistiriam | assistiriatz | assistirián | |
| conditional 2nd form1 | assistiguèra | assistiguèras | assistiguèra | assistigueram | assistigueratz | assistiguèran | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | use the present tense of ?er plus the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | use the imperfect tense of ?er plus the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | use the preterite tense of ?er plus the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | use the future tense of ?er plus the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | use the conditional tense of ?er plus the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ieu | que tu | que el | que nosautres | que vosautres | que eles | |
| present | assistisca | assistiscas | assistisca | assistiscam | assistiscatz | assistiscan | |
| imperfect | assistiguèsse | assistiguèsses | assistiguèsse | assistiguèssem | assistiguèssetz | assistiguèsson | |
| compound tenses |
past | use the present subjunctive of ?er plus the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | use the imperfect subjunctive of ?er plus the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | — | tu | — | nosautres | vosautres | — | |
| assistís | assistiscam | assistissetz | 1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects | ||||
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin assistere, with change of conjugation.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.sisˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [a.sisˈt͡ʃi(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /a.sisˈt͡ʃi(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /a.siʃˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [a.siʃˈt͡ʃi(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.sisˈt͡ʃi(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.siʃˈtiɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.siʃˈti.ɾi/
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /a.siʃ.ˈti(χ)/
- Hyphenation: as‧sis‧tir
Verb
assistir (first-person singular present assisto, first-person singular preterite assisti, past participle assistido)
- (transitive) to assist (to help, especially in a secondary role)
- Enfermeiras devem assistir o médico. ― Nurses must assist the doctor.
- Synonym: ajudar
- (intransitive or transitive) to watch; to witness; to attend [with a or (proscribed) direct object ‘a broadcast, performance, event, etc.’]
- Assistimos o filme até o final. ― We watched the film until the end.
- Nem gosto mais de assistir TV. ― I don’t even like to watch TV anymore.
- Os alunos assistiram às aulas de português. ― The students attended the Portuguese classes.
- Synonym: ver
- (intransitive) with preposition en; to live; to reside
- Assistimos aqui em Guarulhos há tempo. ― We live here in Guarulhos for a long time.
- 1792, Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, Marília de Dirceu[1]:
- Tenho próprio casal e nele assisto
- I have my own village and in it I reside
- (intransitive) with clause subject; It's up to.
- Assiste-lhes cumprir as tarefas. ― It's up to you to complete the tasks.
- Synonym: caber
Conjugation
Conjugation of assistir (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “assistir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025