coltellejar
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [kul.tə.ʎəˈʒa]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [kol.tə.ʎəˈʒa]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [kol.te.ʎeˈd͡ʒaɾ]
Verb
coltellejar (first-person singular present coltellejo, first-person singular preterite coltellegí, past participle coltellejat)
- (transitive, frequentative) to knife (stab or slash with a knife)
- 1929, Llorenç Riber i Campins, Any cristià, I:
- El poble, desafiat i provocat per tanta audàcia, s'emparà del palau i coltellejà el grotesc emperador Eugeni.
- The people, challenged and provoked by such audacity, seized the palace and stabbed to death the grotesque Emperor Eugenius.
Conjugation
Conjugation of coltellejar (first conjugation, j-g alternation)
| infinitive | coltellejar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | coltellejant | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | coltellejat | coltellejada | |||||
| plural | coltellejats | coltellejades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | coltellejo | coltelleges | coltelleja | coltellegem | coltellegeu | coltellegen | |
| imperfect | coltellejava | coltellejaves | coltellejava | coltellejàvem | coltellejàveu | coltellejaven | |
| future | coltellejaré | coltellejaràs | coltellejarà | coltellejarem | coltellejareu | coltellejaran | |
| preterite | coltellegí | coltellejares | coltellejà | coltellejàrem | coltellejàreu | coltellejaren | |
| conditional | coltellejaria | coltellejaries | coltellejaria | coltellejaríem | coltellejaríeu | coltellejarien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | coltellegi | coltellegis | coltellegi | coltellegem | coltellegeu | coltellegin | |
| imperfect | coltellegés | coltellegessis | coltellegés | coltellegéssim | coltellegéssiu | coltellegessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | coltelleja | coltellegi | coltellegem | coltellegeu | coltellegin | |
| negative (no) | — | no coltellegis | no coltellegi | no coltellegem | no coltellegeu | no coltellegin | |
Further reading
- “coltellejar”, 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