impregnar
Ido edit
Etymology edit
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Verb edit
impregnar (present tense impregnas, past tense impregnis, future tense impregnos, imperative impregnez, conditional impregnus)
- to impregnate
- to saturate
Conjugation edit
present | past | future | |||||
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infinitive | impregnar | impregnir | impregnor | ||||
tense | impregnas | impregnis | impregnos | ||||
conditional | impregnus | ||||||
imperative | impregnez | ||||||
adjective active participle | impregnanta | impregninta | impregnonta | ||||
adverbial active participle | impregnante | impregninte | impregnonte | ||||
nominal active participle | singular | impregnanto | impregninto | impregnonto | |||
plural | impregnanti | impregninti | impregnonti | ||||
adjective passive participle | impregnata | impregnita | impregnota | ||||
adverbial passive participle | impregnate | impregnite | impregnote | ||||
nominal passive participle | singular | impregnato | impregnito | impregnoto | |||
plural | impregnati | impregniti | impregnoti |
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin impraegnāre.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: im‧preg‧nar
Verb edit
impregnar (first-person singular present impregno, first-person singular preterite impregnei, past participle impregnado)
- (transitive, reflexive) to soak; pass on
- (transitive, reflexive) to infiltrate; to penetrate
- (transitive) to fill
- (transitive) to impregnate, fertilize
Conjugation edit
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin impraegnāre. Doublet of empreñar.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
impregnar (first-person singular present impregno, first-person singular preterite impregné, past participle impregnado)
- (transitive) to impregnate, permeate (to fill pores or spaces with a substance)
- 1928, Horacio Quiroga, El hijo:
- Un profundo zumbido que llena el ser entero e impregna el ámbito hasta donde la vista alcanza, concentra a esa hora toda la vida tropical.
- A deep hum that fills the whole being and permeates the environment as far as the eye can see, concentrating all tropical life on this hour.
Conjugation edit
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Further reading edit
- “impregnar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014