recortar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.koʁˈta(ʁ)/ [he.kohˈta(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.koʁˈta(ʁ)/ [he.kohˈta(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʁe.koɾˈta(ɾ)/ [he.koɾˈta(ɾ)]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁe.koʁˈta(ʁ)/ [χe.koχˈta(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.koɻˈta(ɻ)/ [he.koɻˈta(ɻ)]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.kuɾˈtaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.kuɾˈtaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.kuɾˈta.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: re‧cor‧tar

Verb

recortar (first-person singular present recorto, first-person singular preterite recortei, past participle recortado)

1. to crop (remove outer parts of)
2. to cut figures from a piece of material

Conjugation

    Conjugation of recortar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	recortar
Personal	recortar	recortares	recortar	recortarmos	recortardes	recortarem
Gerund
	recortando
Past participle
Masculine	recortado			recortados
Feminine	recortada			recortadas
Indicative
Present	recorto	recortas	recorta	recortamos	recortais	recortam
Imperfect	recortava	recortavas	recortava	recortávamos	recortáveis	recortavam
Preterite	recortei	recortaste	recortou	recortamos1, recortámos2	recortastes	recortaram
Pluperfect	recortara	recortaras	recortara	recortáramos	recortáreis	recortaram
Future	recortarei	recortarás	recortará	recortaremos	recortareis	recortarão
Conditional	recortaria	recortarias	recortaria	recortaríamos	recortaríeis	recortariam
Subjunctive
Present	recorte	recortes	recorte	recortemos	recorteis	recortem
Imperfect	recortasse	recortasses	recortasse	recortássemos	recortásseis	recortassem
Future	recortar	recortares	recortar	recortarmos	recortardes	recortarem
Imperative
Affirmative		recorta	recorte	recortemos	recortai	recortem
Negative (não)		não recortes	não recorte	não recortemos	não recorteis	não recortem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Spanish

Etymology

From re- +‎ cortar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rekoɾˈtaɾ/ [re.koɾˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧cor‧tar

Verb

recortar (first-person singular present recorto, first-person singular preterite recorté, past participle recortado)

1. to crop, to trim (remove outer parts of)
2. to reduce, to cut, to cut back on
3. (soccer) to cut back
   • 20 August 2023, Jordi Quixano, “España se hace inmortal con la conquista de su primer Mundial femenino”, in El País‎^[1]:

     tras recortar en el balón del área se sacó un disparo que le susurró al poste

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of recortar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			recortar
gerund			recortando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		recortado		recortada
		plural		recortados		recortadas
		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	recorto	recortastú recortásvos	recorta	recortamos	recortáis	recortan
	imperfect	recortaba	recortabas	recortaba	recortábamos	recortabais	recortaban
	preterite	recorté	recortaste	recortó	recortamos	recortasteis	recortaron
	future	recortaré	recortarás	recortará	recortaremos	recortaréis	recortarán
	conditional	recortaría	recortarías	recortaría	recortaríamos	recortaríais	recortarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	recorte	recortestú recortésvos2	recorte	recortemos	recortéis	recorten
	imperfect (ra)	recortara	recortaras	recortara	recortáramos	recortarais	recortaran
	imperfect (se)	recortase	recortases	recortase	recortásemos	recortaseis	recortasen
	future1	recortare	recortares	recortare	recortáremos	recortareis	recortaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		recortatú recortávos	recorte	recortemos	recortad	recorten
	negative		no recortes	no recorte	no recortemos	no recortéis	no recorten

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

    Selected combined forms of recortar

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
with infinitive recortar
	dative	recortarme	recortarte	recortarle, recortarse	recortarnos	recortaros	recortarles, recortarse
	accusative	recortarme	recortarte	recortarlo, recortarla, recortarse	recortarnos	recortaros	recortarlos, recortarlas, recortarse
with gerund recortando
	dative	recortándome	recortándote	recortándole, recortándose	recortándonos	recortándoos	recortándoles, recortándose
	accusative	recortándome	recortándote	recortándolo, recortándola, recortándose	recortándonos	recortándoos	recortándolos, recortándolas, recortándose
with informal second-person singular tú imperative recorta
	dative	recórtame	recórtate	recórtale	recórtanos	not used	recórtales
	accusative	recórtame	recórtate	recórtalo, recórtala	recórtanos	not used	recórtalos, recórtalas
with informal second-person singular vos imperative recortá
	dative	recortame	recortate	recortale	recortanos	not used	recortales
	accusative	recortame	recortate	recortalo, recortala	recortanos	not used	recortalos, recortalas
with formal second-person singular imperative recorte
	dative	recórteme	not used	recórtele, recórtese	recórtenos	not used	recórteles
	accusative	recórteme	not used	recórtelo, recórtela, recórtese	recórtenos	not used	recórtelos, recórtelas
with first-person plural imperative recortemos
	dative	not used	recortémoste	recortémosle	recortémonos	recortémoos	recortémosles
	accusative	not used	recortémoste	recortémoslo, recortémosla	recortémonos	recortémoos	recortémoslos, recortémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative recortad
	dative	recortadme	not used	recortadle	recortadnos	recortaos	recortadles
	accusative	recortadme	not used	recortadlo, recortadla	recortadnos	recortaos	recortadlos, recortadlas
with formal second-person plural imperative recorten
	dative	recórtenme	not used	recórtenle	recórtennos	not used	recórtenles, recórtense
	accusative	recórtenme	not used	recórtenlo, recórtenla	recórtennos	not used	recórtenlos, recórtenlas, recórtense

Related terms

• recortada
• recorte
• recortes

 

Further reading

• “recortar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014