avortar
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin abortāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [ə.βurˈta]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ə.vorˈta]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [a.voɾˈtaɾ]
Audio (Catalonia): (file)
Verb
avortar (first-person singular present avorto, first-person singular preterite avortí, past participle avortat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/
- (intransitive, medicine, botany) to miscarry, to abort
- (intransitive, figurative) to miscarry, to fail
- (transitive, computing) to abort
Conjugation
Conjugation of avortar (first conjugation)
| infinitive | avortar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | avortant | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | avortat | avortada | |||||
| plural | avortats | avortades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | avorto | avortes | avorta | avortem | avorteu | avorten | |
| imperfect | avortava | avortaves | avortava | avortàvem | avortàveu | avortaven | |
| future | avortaré | avortaràs | avortarà | avortarem | avortareu | avortaran | |
| preterite | avortí | avortares | avortà | avortàrem | avortàreu | avortaren | |
| conditional | avortaria | avortaries | avortaria | avortaríem | avortaríeu | avortarien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | avorti | avortis | avorti | avortem | avorteu | avortin | |
| imperfect | avortés | avortessis | avortés | avortéssim | avortéssiu | avortessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | avorta | avorti | avortem | avorteu | avortin | |
| negative (no) | — | no avortis | no avorti | no avortem | no avorteu | no avortin | |
Derived terms
- avortament
- avortí
- avortista
- avortó
Related terms
Further reading
- “avortar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007