esverar
Catalan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [əz.bəˈɾa]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [əz.vəˈɾa]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ez.veˈɾaɾ]
- Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
Verb
esverar (first-person singular present esvero, first-person singular preterite esverí, past participle esverat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
- (transitive) to scare, to frighten
- Synonym: espantar
- 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 4, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
- –Aquesta nit plourá –va comentar mirant el cel–. Això els esvera.
- "It'll rain tonight," he commented while looking at the sky. "It scares them."
Conjugation
Conjugation of esverar (first conjugation)
| infinitive | esverar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | esverant | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | esverat | esverada | |||||
| plural | esverats | esverades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | esvero | esveres | esvera | esverem | esvereu | esveren | |
| imperfect | esverava | esveraves | esverava | esveràvem | esveràveu | esveraven | |
| future | esveraré | esveraràs | esverarà | esverarem | esverareu | esveraran | |
| preterite | esverí | esverares | esverà | esveràrem | esveràreu | esveraren | |
| conditional | esveraria | esveraries | esveraria | esveraríem | esveraríeu | esverarien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | esveri | esveris | esveri | esverem | esvereu | esverin | |
| imperfect | esverés | esveressis | esverés | esveréssim | esveréssiu | esveressin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | esvera | esveri | esverem | esvereu | esverin | |
| negative (no) | — | no esveris | no esveri | no esverem | no esvereu | no esverin | |
Derived terms
Further reading
- “esverar”, 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
- “esverar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “esverar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “esverar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.