bustiar
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
bustiar (first-person singular present bustio, first-person singular preterite bustií, past participle bustiat)
- (transitive) to distribute (leaflets, catalogs, circulars, etc.) by placing directly in domestic letterboxes without sending through the post
- Els nostres voluntaris han bustiat el butlletí a totes les llars. ― Our volunteers distributed the bulletin to the letterboxes of all the homes.
Conjugation
Conjugation of bustiar (first conjugation)
| infinitive | bustiar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | bustiant | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | bustiat | bustiada | |||||
| plural | bustiats | bustiades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | bustio | busties | bustia | bustiem | bustieu | bustien | |
| imperfect | bustiava | bustiaves | bustiava | bustiàvem | bustiàveu | bustiaven | |
| future | bustiaré | bustiaràs | bustiarà | bustiarem | bustiareu | bustiaran | |
| preterite | bustií | bustiares | bustià | bustiàrem | bustiàreu | bustiaren | |
| conditional | bustiaria | bustiaries | bustiaria | bustiaríem | bustiaríeu | bustiarien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | bustiï | bustiïs | bustiï | bustiem | bustieu | bustiïn | |
| imperfect | bustiés | bustiessis | bustiés | bustiéssim | bustiéssiu | bustiessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | bustia | bustiï | bustiem | bustieu | bustiïn | |
| negative (no) | — | no bustiïs | no bustiï | no bustiem | no bustieu | no bustiïn | |
Derived terms
- bustiada
Further reading
- “bustiar”, 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