covar
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [kuˈβa]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [koˈva]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [koˈvaɾ]
- Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
Verb
covar (first-person singular present covo, first-person singular preterite coví, past participle covat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/
- (transitive) to brood, to incubate
- Synonym: incubar
- covar un projecte ― to incubate a project
- (intransitive) (food) to become too pasty or dry after having been left out of the heat for too long
- l'arròs s'havia covat ― rice had become untasty
Conjugation
Conjugation of covar (first conjugation)
| infinitive | covar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | covant | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | covat | covada | |||||
| plural | covats | covades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | covo | coves | cova | covem | coveu | coven | |
| imperfect | covava | covaves | covava | covàvem | covàveu | covaven | |
| future | covaré | covaràs | covarà | covarem | covareu | covaran | |
| preterite | coví | covares | covà | covàrem | covàreu | covaren | |
| conditional | covaria | covaries | covaria | covaríem | covaríeu | covarien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | covi | covis | covi | covem | coveu | covin | |
| imperfect | covés | covessis | covés | covéssim | covéssiu | covessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | cova | covi | covem | coveu | covin | |
| negative (no) | — | no covis | no covi | no covem | no coveu | no covin | |
Derived terms
Further reading
- “covar”, 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
- “covar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “covar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “covar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
covar m (plural covari)
- (obsolete, regional) blacksmith, smith
- Synonym: fierar
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | covar | covarul | covari | covarii | |
| genitive-dative | covar | covarului | covari | covarilor | |
| vocative | covarule | covarilor | |||
References
- covar in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN