extrañar
Spanish
editEtymology
editInherited from Late Latin extrāneāre, from Latin extrāneus. Compare Portuguese estranhar.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /eɡstɾaˈɲaɾ/ [eɣ̞s.t̪ɾaˈɲaɾ]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: ex‧tra‧ñar
Verb
editextrañar (first-person singular present extraño, first-person singular preterite extrañé, past participle extrañado)
- (transitive) to miss (someone or something)
- Synonyms: añorar, echar de menos
- 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “La nieve”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:
- No me van mal las cosas, me acuesto con putas y soy asiduo de dos bares en donde tengo mi tertulia, como dicen aquí. Pero por las noches, sobre todo por las noches, extraño Rusia y extraño Moscú.
- Things aren't going badly for me, I sleep with whores and I'm a regular at two bars where I have my circle, as they say here. But a night, more than anything at night, I miss Russia and I miss Moscow.
- to surprise, to wonder
- Synonym: preguntarse
- No me extraña que él esté tan enojado consigo mismo.
- No wonder he's so mad at himself.
- (reflexive) to find something strange
- 1888, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Ismael:
- Si entraba por casualidad a alguna capilla, se mantenía muy quieto y manso, con el sombrero en la mano, y hacía como que oía la misa, sin entender de ella la media, extrañándose que el cura comiera costras de pan y tomase vino delante de la gente.
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Conjugation
edit Conjugation of extrañar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of extrañar
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Derived terms
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editFurther reading
edit- “extrañar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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