certificar
Catalan edit
Verb edit
certificar (first-person singular present certifico, first-person singular preterite certifiquí, past participle certificat)
- (transitive) to certify
Conjugation edit
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Further reading edit
- “certificar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin certificāre. By surface analysis, certo (“certain; correct”) + -ificar.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: cer‧ti‧fi‧car
Verb edit
certificar (first-person singular present certifico, first-person singular preterite certifiquei, past participle certificado)
- (transitive) to certify; to attest (to assert as true or meeting a standard)
- (transitive) to certify (to give an official certificate to)
- O ministério não quis certificar a nossa ONG.
- The ministry didn’t want to certify our NGO.
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with de) to make sure (to check whether something is true or proper)
- Synonym: garantir
- Certifiquem-se de que a válvula está fechada.
- Make sure the valve is closed.
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, auxiliary with de and a verb in the impersonal infinitive) to make sure (to remember to)
- Espero que alguém se certifique de trazer a comida.
- I hope someone makes sure they bring the food.
Conjugation edit
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin certificāre, a verb based on Latin certus (“resolved, certain”), a modified form of the perfect passive participle of cernō.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θeɾtifiˈkaɾ/ [θeɾ.t̪i.fiˈkaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /seɾtifiˈkaɾ/ [seɾ.t̪i.fiˈkaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: cer‧ti‧fi‧car
Verb edit
certificar (first-person singular present certifico, first-person singular preterite certifiqué, past participle certificado)
- (transitive) to certify
Conjugation edit
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “certificar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014