encarar
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From en- + cara (“face”) + -ar.
Pronunciation edit
- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.kaˈɾa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.kaˈɾa(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.kaˈɾa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.kaˈɾa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.kaˈɾa(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.kaˈɾa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.kaˈɾa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.kaˈɾa(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.kaˈɾa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.kaˈɾa(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.kaˈɾa(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.kaˈɾa(ɻ)/
- Hyphenation: en‧ca‧rar
Verb edit
encarar (first-person singular present encaro, first-person singular preterite encarei, past participle encarado)
- (transitive) to face (position oneself/itself towards)
- (transitive) to face (deal with)
- (transitive) to stare at
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of encarar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading edit
- “encarar” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “encarar” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “encarar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “encarar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “encarar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “encarar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
encarar (first-person singular present encaro, first-person singular preterite encaré, past participle encarado)
- (transitive) to confront, to face
- (intransitive) to place face to face
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of encarar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of encarar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Further reading edit
- “encarar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014