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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Early Medieval Latin disfacere. Synchronically des- + fazer.
Pronunciation
Verb
desfazer
- to undo
- to criticize
Descendants
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese desfazer, from Early Medieval Latin desfacere. Synchronically des- + fazer.
Pronunciation
Verb
desfazer (first-person singular present desfaço, first-person singular preterite desfiz, past participle desfeito)
- (transitive) to undo; to unfasten
- (transitive) to unpack
- (transitive) to destroy
- (transitive) to dissolve
- (intransitive) to depreciate
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to come undone
- to get rid of
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to disappear
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to melt
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to break up (to end a relationship)
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with de) to get rid of; to give away
Estou me desfazendo de meus livros velhos.- I'm giving my old books away.
Conjugation
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Further reading
- “desfazer” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913