alegar
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alegar (uncountable)
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alegar
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin allēgāre.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: a‧le‧gar
Verb edit
alegar (first-person singular present alego, first-person singular preterite aleguei, past participle alegado)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of alegar (g-gu alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
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Spanish edit
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alegar (first-person singular present alego, first-person singular preterite alegué, past participle alegado)
- (transitive) to cite as a defence or justification for one's actions
- Synonym: aducir
- alegando que ― on the ground(s) that
- (transitive) to claim, to allege
- (intransitive) to complain
- (intransitive, law) to speak in defence of the accused in a criminal proceeding; to defend
- (Canarian) to converse, talk
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of alegar (g-gu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | alegar | ||||||
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gerund | alegando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | alegado | alegada | |||||
plural | alegados | alegadas | |||||
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 | alego | alegastú alegásvos |
alega | alegamos | alegáis | alegan | |
imperfect | alegaba | alegabas | alegaba | alegábamos | alegabais | alegaban | |
preterite | alegué | alegaste | alegó | alegamos | alegasteis | alegaron | |
future | alegaré | alegarás | alegará | alegaremos | alegaréis | alegarán | |
conditional | alegaría | alegarías | alegaría | alegaríamos | alegaríais | alegarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | alegue | aleguestú aleguésvos2 |
alegue | aleguemos | aleguéis | aleguen | |
imperfect (ra) |
alegara | alegaras | alegara | alegáramos | alegarais | alegaran | |
imperfect (se) |
alegase | alegases | alegase | alegásemos | alegaseis | alegasen | |
future1 | alegare | alegares | alegare | alegáremos | alegareis | alegaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | alegatú alegávos |
alegue | aleguemos | alegad | aleguen | ||
negative | no alegues | no alegue | no aleguemos | no aleguéis | no aleguen |
Selected combined forms of alegar (g-gu alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
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Further reading edit
- “alegar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014