bonfacar
Ido
Alternative forms
- bon-facar, bonafacar, bona-facar
Etymology
From bona (“good”) + facar (“to make, do”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔn.faˈt͡sar/
Verb
bonfacar (present bonfacas, past bonfacis, future bonfacos, conditional bonfacus, imperative bonfacez)
- (intransitive) to do good, be a benefactor
- 1911, La Deligitaro, Progreso - Volume 3, page 375:
- Stephen Girard; biografio di Franco, qua multe bonfacis urbo Philadelphia
- Stephen Girard; biography of a Frenchman, who made the city of Philadelphia a lot of good
- (transitive) to do good to (someone)
- 1908, Johann Baptiste Pinth, Jesu Kristo: sa biografio segun la quar evangelyi, page 36:
- Lor via rekompenso esos granda, e vi esos infanti di la max alta Sinioro, qua bonfacas anke la ne-dankozi e malboni
- Then your reward will be hugh, and you will be children of the highest lord, who also does good to the ungrateful and wicked ones
Conjugation
| present | past | future | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | bonfacar | bonfacir | bonfacor | ||||
| tense | bonfacas | bonfacis | bonfacos | ||||
| conditional | bonfacus | — | — | ||||
| imperative | bonfacez | — | — | ||||
| adjective active participle | bonfacanta | bonfacinta | bonfaconta | ||||
| adverbial active participle | bonfacante | bonfacinte | bonfaconte | ||||
| nominal active participle |
singular | bonfacanto | bonfacinto | bonfaconto | |||
| plural | bonfacanti | bonfacinti | bonfaconti | ||||
| adjective passive participle | bonfacata | bonfacita | bonfacota | ||||
| adverbial passive participle | bonfacate | bonfacite | bonfacote | ||||
| nominal passive participle |
singular | bonfacato | bonfacito | bonfacoto | |||
| plural | bonfacati | bonfaciti | bonfacoti | ||||
Derived terms
- bonfaco (“benefaction, good offices, benefit, favor”)