xafar
Catalan
Etymology
Onomatopoeic. Related to Spanish chafar.
Pronunciation
Verb
xafar (first-person singular present xafo, first-person singular preterite xafí, past participle xafat)
Conjugation
Conjugation of xafar (first conjugation)
| infinitive | xafar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | xafant | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | xafat | xafada | |||||
| plural | xafats | xafades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | xafo | xafes | xafa | xafem | xafeu | xafen | |
| imperfect | xafava | xafaves | xafava | xafàvem | xafàveu | xafaven | |
| future | xafaré | xafaràs | xafarà | xafarem | xafareu | xafaran | |
| preterite | xafí | xafares | xafà | xafàrem | xafàreu | xafaren | |
| conditional | xafaria | xafaries | xafaria | xafaríem | xafaríeu | xafarien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | xafi | xafis | xafi | xafem | xafeu | xafin | |
| imperfect | xafés | xafessis | xafés | xaféssim | xaféssiu | xafessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | xafa | xafi | xafem | xafeu | xafin | |
| negative (no) | — | no xafis | no xafi | no xafem | no xafeu | no xafin | |
Derived terms
Further reading
- “xafar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “xafar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “xafar”, 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