confundir

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnfundere, with change of conjugation.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: con‧fun‧dir

Verb

confundir (first-person singular present confundo, first-person singular preterite confundi, past participle confundido)

1. (transitive) to confuse; to confound (to lead someone into an incorrect conclusion or uncertainty)

   O mapa com errors confundiu os navegadores. ― The map with errors confused the navigators.

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun, intransitive, or transitive with com) to be confused (by) (to make a mistake (due to))

   Ela errou o caminho porque se confundiu. ― She missed the way because she got confused.

   Todo mundo se confunde com isso. ― Everyone gets confused with this.

3. (transitive) to mix up; to confuse (to mistake things for one another)

   Cuidado para não confundir as datas. ― Be careful not to mix the dates up.

4. (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking com or por (less common)) to mistake one thing for another

   O cirurgião disse que quase confundira o fígado com o baço. ― The surgeon said he had almost mistaken the liver for the spleen.

5. (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with com) to merge; to syncretize (to form a combination from different elements)

   Synonyms: juntar, sincretizar

   Naquela cidade a cultura ocidental se confunde com a oriental. ― In that city, Western culture merges with Eastern culture.

6. (obsolete, transitive) to confound; to thwart; to frustrate; to foil (to prevent from happening or succeeding)

   Synonym: impedir

   Desejamos que a rainha confunda as políticas de seus inimigos. ― We wish for the queen to confound her enemies’ politics.

Conjugation

Related terms

• confuso

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnfundere. Doublet of cohonder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konfunˈdiɾ/

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: con‧fun‧dir

Verb

confundir (first-person singular present confundo, first-person singular preterite confundí, past participle confundido)

1. (transitive) to confuse, to throw off, to baffle, to perplex
2. (transitive, also takes a reflexive pronoun) to mistake, to confuse, to mix up (misidentify)

   Mi abuelo confundió un calabacín con un pepino y lo puso en su ensalada.

   My grandpa mistook a zucchini for a cucumber and put it in his salad.

3. (transitive) to confound

Conjugation

Related terms

See also

• enturbiar

Further reading

• “confundir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014