personificar
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [pər.su.ni.fiˈka]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [pər.so.ni.fiˈka]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [peɾ.so.ni.fiˈkaɾ]
- Homophone: personificà
- Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
Verb
personificar (first-person singular present personifico, first-person singular preterite personifiquí, past participle personificat)
- to personify
Conjugation
Conjugation of personificar (first conjugation, c-qu alternation)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “personificar”, 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
- “personificar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “personificar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “personificar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /peʁ.so.ni.fiˈka(ʁ)/ [peh.so.ni.fiˈka(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /peɾ.so.ni.fiˈka(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /peʁ.so.ni.fiˈka(ʁ)/ [peχ.so.ni.fiˈka(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /peɻ.so.ni.fiˈka(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨɾ.su.ni.fiˈkaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨɾ.su.ni.fiˈka.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: per‧so‧ni‧fi‧car
Verb
personificar (first-person singular present personifico, first-person singular preterite personifiquei, past participle personificado)
Conjugation
Conjugation of personificar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peɾsonifiˈkaɾ/ [peɾ.so.ni.fiˈkaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: per‧so‧ni‧fi‧car
Verb
personificar (first-person singular present personifico, first-person singular preterite personifiqué, past participle personificado)
- to personify
Conjugation
Conjugation of personificar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of personificar (c-qu alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| with infinitive personificar | dative | personificarme | personificarte | personificarle, personificarse | personificarnos | personificaros | personificarles, personificarse |
| accusative | personificarme | personificarte | personificarlo, personificarla, personificarse | personificarnos | personificaros | personificarlos, personificarlas, personificarse | |
| with gerund personificando | dative | personificándome | personificándote | personificándole, personificándose | personificándonos | personificándoos | personificándoles, personificándose |
| accusative | personificándome | personificándote | personificándolo, personificándola, personificándose | personificándonos | personificándoos | personificándolos, personificándolas, personificándose | |
| with informal second-person singular tú imperative personifica | dative | personifícame | personifícate | personifícale | personifícanos | not used | personifícales |
| accusative | personifícame | personifícate | personifícalo, personifícala | personifícanos | not used | personifícalos, personifícalas | |
| with informal second-person singular vos imperative personificá | dative | personificame | personificate | personificale | personificanos | not used | personificales |
| accusative | personificame | personificate | personificalo, personificala | personificanos | not used | personificalos, personificalas | |
| with formal second-person singular imperative personifique | dative | personifíqueme | not used | personifíquele, personifíquese | personifíquenos | not used | personifíqueles |
| accusative | personifíqueme | not used | personifíquelo, personifíquela, personifíquese | personifíquenos | not used | personifíquelos, personifíquelas | |
| with first-person plural imperative personifiquemos | dative | not used | personifiquémoste | personifiquémosle | personifiquémonos | personifiquémoos | personifiquémosles |
| accusative | not used | personifiquémoste | personifiquémoslo, personifiquémosla | personifiquémonos | personifiquémoos | personifiquémoslos, personifiquémoslas | |
| with informal second-person plural imperative personificad | dative | personificadme | not used | personificadle | personificadnos | personificaos | personificadles |
| accusative | personificadme | not used | personificadlo, personificadla | personificadnos | personificaos | personificadlos, personificadlas | |
| with formal second-person plural imperative personifiquen | dative | personifíquenme | not used | personifíquenle | personifíquennos | not used | personifíquenles, personifíquense |
| accusative | personifíquenme | not used | personifíquenlo, personifíquenla | personifíquennos | not used | personifíquenlos, personifíquenlas, personifíquense | |
Related terms
Further reading
- “personificar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024