cornuar-se
Catalan
Etymology
From cor (“heart”) + nuar-se (“choke up”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [kur.nuˈar.sə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [kor.nuˈar.sə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [koɾ.nuˈaɾ.se]
Verb
cornuar-se (first-person singular present em cornuo, first-person singular preterite em cornuí, past participle cornuat)
- (transitive, pronominal) to choke up, to become verklempt
- 1961, Antoni Cayrol, Contalles de Cerdanya:
- Oint tals paraules, l'home del porc es cornua i es posa a plorar.
- Hearing those words, the swineherd choked up and began to cry.
Conjugation
Conjugation of cornuar-se (first conjugation)
| infinitive | cornuar-se | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | cornuant-se | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | cornuat | cornuada | |||||
| plural | cornuats | cornuades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | em cornuo | et cornues | es cornua | ens cornuem | us cornueu | es cornuen | |
| imperfect | em cornuava | et cornuaves | es cornuava | ens cornuàvem | us cornuàveu | es cornuaven | |
| future | em cornuaré | et cornuaràs | es cornuarà | ens cornuarem | us cornuareu | es cornuaran | |
| preterite | em cornuí | et cornuares | es cornuà | ens cornuàrem | us cornuàreu | es cornuaren | |
| conditional | em cornuaria | et cornuaries | es cornuaria | ens cornuaríem | us cornuaríeu | es cornuarien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | em cornuï | et cornuïs | es cornuï | ens cornuem | us cornueu | es cornuïn | |
| imperfect | em cornués | et cornuessis | es cornués | ens cornuéssim | us cornuéssiu | es cornuessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | cornua't | cornuï's | cornuem-nos | cornueu-vos | cornuïn-se | |
| negative (no) | — | no et cornuïs | no es cornuï | no ens cornuem | no us cornueu | no es cornuïn | |
Derived terms
- cornuament
Further reading
- “cornuar-se”, 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