pencar
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəŋˈka]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [peŋˈkaɾ]
- Homophone: pencà
- Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
Verb
pencar (first-person singular present penco, first-person singular preterite penquí, past participle pencat); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/
- (intransitive, colloquial) to work
Conjugation
Conjugation of pencar (first conjugation, c-qu alternation)
| infinitive | pencar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | pencant | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | pencat | pencada | |||||
| plural | pencats | pencades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | penco | penques | penca | penquem | penqueu | penquen | |
| imperfect | pencava | pencaves | pencava | pencàvem | pencàveu | pencaven | |
| future | pencaré | pencaràs | pencarà | pencarem | pencareu | pencaran | |
| preterite | penquí | pencares | pencà | pencàrem | pencàreu | pencaren | |
| conditional | pencaria | pencaries | pencaria | pencaríem | pencaríeu | pencarien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | penqui | penquis | penqui | penquem | penqueu | penquin | |
| imperfect | penqués | penquessis | penqués | penquéssim | penquéssiu | penquessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | penca | penqui | penquem | penqueu | penquin | |
| negative (no) | — | no penquis | no penqui | no penquem | no penqueu | no penquin | |
Further reading
- “pencar”, 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
- “pencar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “pencar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pencar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ar
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /pənˈt͡ʃar/ [pəɲˈt͡ʃar]
- Rhymes: -ar
- Syllabification: pen‧car
Verb
pencar
Affixed terms
Further reading
- “pencar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Northern Kurdish
The spelling of this entry has been normalized according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:About Northern Kurdish or recent spelling standards of the language.
Noun
pencar m
References
- Rhea, Samuel A. (1872–1880) “Brief Grammar and Vocabulary of the Kurdish Language of the Hakari District”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 10, page 148b