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Pronunciation
Verb
assentar (first-person singular present assento, first-person singular preterite assentí, past participle assentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
- to settle, to set up
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Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese assentar, asentar, from Vulgar Latin *adsedentāre, from Latin ad + sedentāre, or constructed in Old Portuguese as a- + sentar (“to sit”).
Pronunciation
Verb
assentar (first-person singular present assento, first-person singular preterite assentei, past participle assentado, short past participle assente)
- to seat
- to register
- to settle; to determine; to decide
Usage notes
In Brazil, the verb may be treated as having a regular past participle; speakers might use assentado in all cases. This is considered nonstandard, however.
Conjugation
1Usually used with auxiliary verbs ser and estar.
2Usually used with auxiliary verbs haver and ter.
3Brazilian Portuguese.
4European Portuguese.