sotjar
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French soschier, from Latin suspicārī.
Pronunciation
Verb
sotjar (first-person singular present sotjo, first-person singular preterite sotgí, past participle sotjat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/
- (transitive) to spy on, to watch covertly
- 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 5, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
- No feia ni mitja hora que sotjava quan va sortir al balcó.
- I had not even been spying for half an hour when he came out on the balcony.
Conjugation
Conjugation of sotjar (first conjugation, j-g alternation)
| infinitive | sotjar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | sotjant | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | sotjat | sotjada | |||||
| plural | sotjats | sotjades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | sotjo | sotges | sotja | sotgem | sotgeu | sotgen | |
| imperfect | sotjava | sotjaves | sotjava | sotjàvem | sotjàveu | sotjaven | |
| future | sotjaré | sotjaràs | sotjarà | sotjarem | sotjareu | sotjaran | |
| preterite | sotgí | sotjares | sotjà | sotjàrem | sotjàreu | sotjaren | |
| conditional | sotjaria | sotjaries | sotjaria | sotjaríem | sotjaríeu | sotjarien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | sotgi | sotgis | sotgi | sotgem | sotgeu | sotgin | |
| imperfect | sotgés | sotgessis | sotgés | sotgéssim | sotgéssiu | sotgessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | sotja | sotgi | sotgem | sotgeu | sotgin | |
| negative (no) | — | no sotgis | no sotgi | no sotgem | no sotgeu | no sotgin | |
Derived terms
- sotjador
Further reading
- “sotjar”, 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