afundar

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Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese afondar, from Vulgar Latin *affundāre, derived from fundus (“bottom”). By surface analysis, a- +‎ fundo +‎ -ar. Compare Galician afondar, Spanish ahondar.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: a‧fun‧dar

Verb

afundar (first-person singular present afundo, first-person singular preterite afundei, past participle afundado)

  1. (pronominal) to sink (descend into liquid, etc)
  2. (transitive) to sink (cause to sink)
    • 2017 April 24, João Ruela Ribeiro, “Coreia do Norte ameaça afundar porta-aviões norte-americano”, in Público‎:
      A Coreia do Norte garantiu estar preparada para responder ao que entende ser uma provocação dos seus rivais. “As nossas forças revolucionárias estão preparadas militarmente para afundar o porta-aviões nuclear dos EUA com apenas um ataque”, escreveu o Rodong Sinmun, o jornal oficial do Partido dos Trabalhadores da Coreia.
      North Korea has said it is prepared to respond to what it sees as provocation by its rivals. “Our revolutionary forces are militarily prepared to sink the US nuclear aircraft carrier with just one strike,” wrote Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Workers' Party of Korea.
  3. (intransitive, basketball) to dunk, to slam dunk

Conjugation

    Conjugation of afundar (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 afundar
Personal afundar afundares afundar afundarmos afundardes afundarem
Gerund
afundando
Past participle
Masculine afundado afundados
Feminine afundada afundadas
Indicative
Present afundo afundas afunda afundamos afundais afundam
Imperfect afundava afundavas afundava afundávamos afundáveis afundavam
Preterite afundei afundaste afundou afundamos1, afundámos2 afundastes afundaram
Pluperfect afundara afundaras afundara afundáramos afundáreis afundaram
Future afundarei afundarás afundará afundaremos afundareis afundarão
Conditional afundaria afundarias afundaria afundaríamos afundaríeis afundariam
Subjunctive
Present afunde afundes afunde afundemos afundeis afundem
Imperfect afundasse afundasses afundasse afundássemos afundásseis afundassem
Future afundar afundares afundar afundarmos afundardes afundarem
Imperative
Affirmative afunda afunde afundemos afundai afundem
Negative (não) não afundes não afunde não afundemos não afundeis não afundem

1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.

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