confessar
Catalan Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin cōnfessāre.
Pronunciation Edit
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /kom.fəˈsa/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kum.fəˈsa/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /kom.feˈsaɾ/
- Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
Verb Edit
confessar (first-person singular present confesso, past participle confessat)
- to confess
Conjugation Edit
Conjugation of confessar (first conjugation)
| infinitive | confessar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | confessant | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | confessat | confessada | |||||
| plural | confessats | confessades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | confesso | confesses | confessa | confessem | confesseu | confessen | |
| imperfect | confessava | confessaves | confessava | confessàvem | confessàveu | confessaven | |
| future | confessaré | confessaràs | confessarà | confessarem | confessareu | confessaran | |
| preterite | confessí | confessares | confessà | confessàrem | confessàreu | confessaren | |
| conditional | confessaria | confessaries | confessaria | confessaríem | confessaríeu | confessarien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | confessi | confessis | confessi | confessem | confesseu | confessin | |
| imperfect | confessés | confessessis | confessés | confesséssim | confesséssiu | confessessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| — | confessa | confessi | confessem | confesseu | confessin | ||
Related terms Edit
Further reading Edit
- “confessar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Occitan Edit
Etymology Edit
From Ecclesiastical Latin confessō.
Pronunciation Edit
Audio (file)
Verb Edit
confessar
- to confess
Related terms Edit
Portuguese Edit
Alternative forms Edit
- cõfessar (obsolete, abbreviation)
Etymology Edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese confessar, from Ecclesiastical Latin cōnfessāre (“to confess”) (possibly an inheritance), a derivative of Latin cōnfessus, past participle of cōnfiteor (“to confess, to admit”) from con- + fateor (“to admit”).
Pronunciation Edit
- Hyphenation: con‧fes‧sar
Verb Edit
confessar (first-person singular present confesso, first-person singular preterite confessei, past participle confessado)
- (transitive) to confess; to own up to; to admit to (to admit one has done something, especially something bad)
- Synonym: admitir
- (religion, transitive or intransitive) to confess (to disclose one’s sins to a clergyman)
- (religion, transitive) to confess (to hear someone’s confessions)
- (chiefly religion, transitive) to confess; to follow (to have a given religion or set of beliefs)
- Synonym: seguir
Conjugation Edit
Conjugation of confessar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazil.
2Portugal.