creer
Asturian edit
Verb edit
creer
- Alternative form of creyer
Latin edit
Verb edit
creer
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin crēdere, from Proto-Italic *krezdō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱred dʰeh₁- (“to place one's heart, i.e. to trust, believe”), compound phrase of oblique case form of *ḱḗr (“heart”) and *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
creer
- to believe
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 181 (facsimile):
- ⁊ el creeu ſeu conſello
- And he took their advice.
- ⁊ el creeu ſeu conſello
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Noun edit
creer m (plural creeri)
Declension edit
Declension of creer
References edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish creer,[1] from Latin crēdere, from Proto-Italic *krezðō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱred dʰeh₁- (“to place one's heart, i.e. to trust, believe”), compound phrase of oblique case form of *ḱḗr (“heart”) and *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
creer (first-person singular present creo, first-person singular preterite creí, past participle creído)
- (transitive) to believe
- (transitive) to think, to believe, to reckon, to be of the opinion
- to give credence to
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of creer (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | creer | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | creyendo | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | creído | creída | |||||
plural | creídos | creídas | |||||
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 | creo | creestú creésvos |
cree | creemos | creéis | creen | |
imperfect | creía | creías | creía | creíamos | creíais | creían | |
preterite | creí | creíste | creyó | creímos | creísteis | creyeron | |
future | creeré | creerás | creerá | creeremos | creeréis | creerán | |
conditional | creería | creerías | creería | creeríamos | creeríais | creerían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | crea | creastú creásvos2 |
crea | creamos | creáis | crean | |
imperfect (ra) |
creyera | creyeras | creyera | creyéramos | creyerais | creyeran | |
imperfect (se) |
creyese | creyeses | creyese | creyésemos | creyeseis | creyesen | |
future1 | creyere | creyeres | creyere | creyéremos | creyereis | creyeren | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | creetú creévos |
crea | creamos | creed | crean | ||
negative | no creas | no crea | no creamos | no creáis | no crean |
Selected combined forms of creer
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Related terms edit
- acreer
- credibilidad
- crédito
- creedor
- creencia
- creíble
- creído
- creyente
- descreer
- no creas
- no te creas
- ya lo creo (“indeed, you bet, you better believe it, you can say that again”)
References edit
- ^ Concepción Company Company (1985) “Los futuros en el español medieval, sus orígenes y su evolución [The future tense in Medieval Spanish, its origin and its evolution]”, in Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica (NRFH)[1] (in Spanish), volume 34, number 1 (PDF), Mexico City: Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios (CELL), El Colegio de México, published 1985, , →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 2019-06-14, page 105
Further reading edit
- “creer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014