ponderar
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ponderāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [pun.dəˈɾa]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [pon.dəˈɾa]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [pon.deˈɾaɾ]
- Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
Verb
ponderar (first-person singular present pondero, first-person singular preterite ponderí, past participle ponderat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
- (transitive) to consider, ponder, weigh
- (transitive) to praise, talk up
- 1928, Alexandre Galí, La mesura objectiva del treball escolar:
- No ens cansarem mai de ponderar la importància de la condició de materialitat documental.
- We will never tire of praising the importance of the condition of documentary material.
Conjugation
Conjugation of ponderar (first conjugation)
Related terms
- ponderable
- ponderació
- ponderat
- ponderós
Further reading
- “ponderar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
Galician
Etymology
Verb
ponderar (first-person singular present pondero, first-person singular preterite ponderei, past participle ponderado)
Conjugation
Conjugation of ponderar
Reintegrated conjugation of ponderar (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)
1Less recommended.
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /põ.deˈɾa(ʁ)/ [põ.deˈɾa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /põ.deˈɾa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /põ.deˈɾa(ʁ)/ [põ.deˈɾa(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /põ.deˈɾa(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /põ.dɨˈɾaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /põ.dɨˈɾa.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: pon‧de‧rar
Verb
ponderar (first-person singular present pondero, first-person singular preterite ponderei, past participle ponderado)
- (mathematics) to weight (to assign weights to individual values)
- to ponder; to wonder (to think of deeply)
Conjugation
Conjugation of ponderar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pondeˈɾaɾ/ [põn̪.d̪eˈɾaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: pon‧de‧rar
Verb
ponderar (first-person singular present pondero, first-person singular preterite ponderé, past participle ponderado)
- (transitive) to ponder, consider
- Synonyms: sopesar, considerar
- (transitive) to weight
Conjugation
Conjugation of ponderar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of ponderar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
singular | plural | ||||||
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1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
with infinitive ponderar | dative | ponderarme | ponderarte | ponderarle, ponderarse | ponderarnos | ponderaros | ponderarles, ponderarse |
accusative | ponderarme | ponderarte | ponderarlo, ponderarla, ponderarse | ponderarnos | ponderaros | ponderarlos, ponderarlas, ponderarse | |
with gerund ponderando | dative | ponderándome | ponderándote | ponderándole, ponderándose | ponderándonos | ponderándoos | ponderándoles, ponderándose |
accusative | ponderándome | ponderándote | ponderándolo, ponderándola, ponderándose | ponderándonos | ponderándoos | ponderándolos, ponderándolas, ponderándose | |
with informal second-person singular tú imperative pondera | dative | pondérame | pondérate | pondérale | pondéranos | not used | pondérales |
accusative | pondérame | pondérate | pondéralo, pondérala | pondéranos | not used | pondéralos, pondéralas | |
with informal second-person singular vos imperative ponderá | dative | ponderame | ponderate | ponderale | ponderanos | not used | ponderales |
accusative | ponderame | ponderate | ponderalo, ponderala | ponderanos | not used | ponderalos, ponderalas | |
with formal second-person singular imperative pondere | dative | pondéreme | not used | pondérele, pondérese | pondérenos | not used | pondéreles |
accusative | pondéreme | not used | pondérelo, pondérela, pondérese | pondérenos | not used | pondérelos, pondérelas | |
with first-person plural imperative ponderemos | dative | not used | ponderémoste | ponderémosle | ponderémonos | ponderémoos | ponderémosles |
accusative | not used | ponderémoste | ponderémoslo, ponderémosla | ponderémonos | ponderémoos | ponderémoslos, ponderémoslas | |
with informal second-person plural imperative ponderad | dative | ponderadme | not used | ponderadle | ponderadnos | ponderaos | ponderadles |
accusative | ponderadme | not used | ponderadlo, ponderadla | ponderadnos | ponderaos | ponderadlos, ponderadlas | |
with formal second-person plural imperative ponderen | dative | pondérenme | not used | pondérenle | pondérennos | not used | pondérenles, pondérense |
accusative | pondérenme | not used | pondérenlo, pondérenla | pondérennos | not used | pondérenlos, pondérenlas, pondérense |
Related terms
Further reading
- “ponderar”, 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