destacar
Asturian edit
Verb edit
destacar (first-person singular indicative present destaco, past participle destacáu)
Conjugation edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian staccare.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
destacar (first-person singular present destaco, first-person singular preterite destaquí, past participle destacat)
- (transitive) to detach (create a detachment)
- to stand out
- to emphasize
Conjugation edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “destacar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “destacar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “destacar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “destacar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish destacar, from French détacher, from Old French destachier (“detach”). Cognate with English detach.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: des‧ta‧car
Verb edit
destacar (first-person singular present destaco, first-person singular preterite destaquei, past participle destacado)
- to highlight, to underline
- to detach (or send on detachment)
- (reflexive) to stand out (to be noticeable among many)
- Synonyms: sobressair, brilhar, fulgurar
- Destacava-se pelo seu trabalho excepcional. ― He stood out because of his exceptional work.
Conjugation edit
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “destacar” in Dicionário Online de Português.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French détacher. Compare English detach.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
destacar (first-person singular present destaco, first-person singular preterite destaqué, past participle destacado)
- (transitive) to emphasize, to highlight, to stress, to point out, to single out, to underline, to underscore, to bring out, to note
- 2014, Carmen Pereira-Muro, Culturas de España §9.p. 267:
- En música cabe destacar figuras como el compositor Isaac Albéniz, o el cellista Pau Casals, o al nivel de la cultura popular el grupo de la “Nova Cançó” catalana (Raimon, Joan Manuel Serrat, Lluis Llach, etc.), que reivindicó la canción en catalán en los últimos años de la dictadura.
- In music, it is worth highlighting people such as the composer Isaac Albéniz, or the cellist Pau Casals, or at the level of popular culture the circle of the Catalan Nova Cançó (Raimon, Joan Manuel Serrat, Lluis Llach, etc.) which reestablished the value of Catalan songs in the later years of the dictatorship.
- En música cabe destacar figuras como el compositor Isaac Albéniz, o el cellista Pau Casals, o al nivel de la cultura popular el grupo de la “Nova Cançó” catalana (Raimon, Joan Manuel Serrat, Lluis Llach, etc.), que reivindicó la canción en catalán en los últimos años de la dictadura.
- (military, transitive) to detach troops
- (intransitive, reflexive) to stand out, to excel, to shine (to make oneself stand out, to distinguish oneself)
- Synonym: sobresalir
- (reflexive) to stand out, to jump out at (+ a) (i.e., to be highly noticeable to)
- (reflexive) to be highlighted, emphasized, stressed, underlined, underscored, pointed out
Conjugation edit
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Portuguese: destacar
Further reading edit
- “destacar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Venetian edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
destacar
- to remove, separate, etc.
- to unhook, uncouple, disconnect etc.
Conjugation edit
- Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
infinitive | destacar | |||||
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auxiliary verb | aver | gerund | destacando | |||
past participle | destacà | |||||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | mi | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
present | destaco | (te) destachi | (el/ła) destaca | destachémo, destacòn | destaché | (i/łe) destaca |
imperfect | destacava | (te) destacavi | (el/ła) destacava | destacàvimo | destacavi | (i/łe) destacava |
future | destacarò | (te) destacarè | (el/ła) destacarà | destacarémo | destacarè | (i/łe) destacarà |
conditional | mi | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
present | destacarìa | (te) destacarisi | (el/ła) destacarìa | destacarìsimo | destacarisi | (i/łe) destacarìa |
subjunctive | che mi | che ti | che eło / eła | che noialtri / noialtre | che voialtri / voialtre | che łuri / łore |
present | destache, destaca | (te) destachi | (el/ła) destache, (el/ła) destaca | destachémo, destacone | destaché | (i/łe) destache, (i/łe) destaca |
imperfect | destacase | (te) destacasi | (el/ła) destacase | destacàsimo | destacasi | (i/łe) destacase |
imperative | — | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
— | (te) destaca | (el/ła) destaca, (el/ła) destache | destachémo | destaché | (i/łe) destaca, (i/łe) destache |