focalizar
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: fo‧ca‧li‧zar
Verb edit
focalizar (first-person singular present focalizo, first-person singular preterite focalizei, past participle focalizado)
- (transitive) to focus (to cause light to converge at a single point)
- (intransitive, of light rays) to converge at a single point
- (transitive) to focus (to adjust the lens of an optical instrument)
- (with em) to focus (to concentrate one’s attention)
- Synonyms: focar, concentrar-se
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of focalizar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English focalize.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /fokaliˈθaɾ/ [fo.ka.liˈθaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /fokaliˈsaɾ/ [fo.ka.liˈsaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: fo‧ca‧li‧zar
Verb edit
focalizar (first-person singular present focalizo, first-person singular preterite focalicé, past participle focalizado)
- to focus
- (photography) to focus
- (investment) to target
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of focalizar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of focalizar (c-z alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “focalizar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014