sahumar

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin suffūmāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sauˈmaɾ/ [sau̯ˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: sahu‧mar

Verb

sahumar (first-person singular present sahúmo, first-person singular preterite sahumé, past participle sahumado)

1. (transitive) to perfume; to scent (with incense)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of sahumar (u-ú alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			sahumar
gerund			sahumando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		sahumado		sahumada
		plural		sahumados		sahumadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	sahúmo	sahúmastú sahumásvos	sahúma	sahumamos	sahumáis	sahúman
	imperfect	sahumaba	sahumabas	sahumaba	sahumábamos	sahumabais	sahumaban
	preterite	sahumé	sahumaste	sahumó	sahumamos	sahumasteis	sahumaron
	future	sahumaré	sahumarás	sahumará	sahumaremos	sahumaréis	sahumarán
	conditional	sahumaría	sahumarías	sahumaría	sahumaríamos	sahumaríais	sahumarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	sahúme	sahúmestú sahumésvos2	sahúme	sahumemos	sahuméis	sahúmen
	imperfect (ra)	sahumara	sahumaras	sahumara	sahumáramos	sahumarais	sahumaran
	imperfect (se)	sahumase	sahumases	sahumase	sahumásemos	sahumaseis	sahumasen
	future1	sahumare	sahumares	sahumare	sahumáremos	sahumareis	sahumaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		sahúmatú sahumávos	sahúme	sahumemos	sahumad	sahúmen
	negative		no sahúmes	no sahúme	no sahumemos	no sahuméis	no sahúmen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “sahumar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014