acentuar
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: a‧cen‧tu‧ar
Verb edit
acentuar (first-person singular present acentuo, first-person singular preterite acentuei, past participle acentuado)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of acentuar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin accentuāre.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /aθenˈtwaɾ/ [a.θẽn̪ˈt̪waɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /asenˈtwaɾ/ [a.sẽn̪ˈt̪waɾ]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: a‧cen‧tuar
Verb edit
acentuar (first-person singular present acentúo, first-person singular preterite acentué, past participle acentuado)
- (transitive) to accentuate (to pronounce with vocal stress)
- 2015, Esther Herrera Zendejas, Tono, acentos y estructuras métricas en lenguas mexicanas., El Colegio de Mexico AC, →ISBN:
- Sin embargo, es muy notorio en esta lengua la reducción de vocales no acentuadas, muchas de las cuales desaparecen por completo, tanto en posición media como en posición final de palabra.
- However, the reduction of unstressed vowels in this language is very notorious; many of them disappear completely in the mid-word as well as the word-final position.
- (transitive) to accentuate (to mark with a written accent)
- 2012, Pedro Manuel Jiménez de Urrea, Cancionero, Universidad de Zaragoza →ISBN
- Acentuamos la forma tónica del pronombre nós para distinguirla de la forma átona […]
- We accentuate the tonic form of the pronoun nós to distinguish it from the atonic form […]
- Synonym: tildar
- 2012, Pedro Manuel Jiménez de Urrea, Cancionero, Universidad de Zaragoza →ISBN
- (transitive) to accentuate, to emphasize
- 1995, Carlos Alberto Torres, La política de la educación no formal en América Latina, Siglo XXI, →ISBN, page 14:
- Pero aún más importante es que la distribución desigual del consumo en las sociedades condicionadas acentúa la importancia de ese símbolo.
- But even more important is that the unequal distribution of consumption in conditioned societies accentuates the importance of that symbol.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of acentuar (u-ú alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of acentuar (u-ú alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “acentuar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014