encerrar
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.seˈʁa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.seˈha(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.seˈʁa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.seˈha(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.seˈʁa(ɾ)/ [ẽ.seˈha(ɾ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.seˈʁa(ɾ)/ [ĩ.seˈha(ɾ)]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.seˈʁa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.seˈχa(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.seˈʁa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.seˈχa(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.seˈʁa(ɻ)/ [ẽ.seˈha(ɻ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.seˈʁa(ɻ)/ [ĩ.seˈha(ɻ)]
- Hyphenation: en‧cer‧rar
Verb edit
encerrar (first-person singular present encerro, first-person singular preterite encerrei, past participle encerrado)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of encerrar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /enθeˈraɾ/ [ẽn̟.θeˈraɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /enseˈraɾ/ [ẽn.seˈraɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: en‧ce‧rrar
Verb edit
encerrar (first-person singular present encierro, first-person singular preterite encerré, past participle encerrado)
- to lock up, to coop up
- Synonym: recluir
- to lock away, put away, to imprison, to nail (in a prison or mental hospital)
- to enclose, to confine, to immure
- to contain, to hold, to include, to encapsulate, to entail
- (games) to stalemate
- (typography) to separate (between brackets, commas)
- (reflexive) to take over; occupy (a building)
- (reflexive) to shut oneself up, to withdraw, to shut away oneself, to shut off oneself, to lock up or lock down oneself, to close off oneself
- (reflexive) to shy away
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of encerrar (e-ie alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of encerrar (e-ie alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “encerrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014