desfazer
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Early Medieval Latin disfacere. Synchronically des- + fazer.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɾ
Verb edit
desfazer
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese desfazer, from Early Medieval Latin desfacere. Synchronically des- + fazer.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: des‧fa‧zer
Verb edit
desfazer (first-person singular present desfaço, first-person singular preterite desfiz, past participle desfeito)
- (transitive) to undo; to unfasten
- (transitive) to unpack
- (transitive) to destroy
- (transitive) to dissolve
- (intransitive) to depreciate
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to come undone
- to get rid of
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to disappear
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to melt
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to break up (to end a relationship)
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with de) to get rid of; to give away
- Estou me desfazendo de meus livros velhos.
- I'm giving my old books away.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of desfazer (irregular) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazil only.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “desfazer” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913