distar

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin distāre (“to be far”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒisˈta(ʁ)/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒisˈta(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiʃˈta(ʁ)/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒisˈta(ɻ)/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /diʃˈtaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /diʃˈta.ɾi/

Verb

distar (first-person singular present disto, first-person singular preterite distei, past participle distado)

to be far
A minha casa dista do centro.
My house is far from downtown.
(of concepts, ideas, systems) to differ (to be different)
Synonym: diferir

O teu plano não dista muito do meu.
Your plan is not very different from mine.

Conjugation

Conjugation of distar (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	distar
Personal	distar	distares	distar	distarmos	distardes	distarem
Gerund
	distando
Past participle
Masculine	distado			distados
Feminine	distada			distadas
Indicative
Present	disto	distas	dista	distamos	distais	distam
Imperfect	distava	distavas	distava	distávamos	distáveis	distavam
Preterite	distei	distaste	distou	distamos¹, distámos²	distastes	distaram
Pluperfect	distara	distaras	distara	distáramos	distáreis	distaram
Future	distarei	distarás	distará	distaremos	distareis	distarão
Conditional	distaria	distarias	distaria	distaríamos	distaríeis	distariam
Subjunctive
Present	diste	distes	diste	distemos	disteis	distem
Imperfect	distasse	distasses	distasse	distássemos	distásseis	distassem
Future	distar	distares	distar	distarmos	distardes	distarem
Imperative
Affirmative		dista	diste	distemos	distai	distem
Negative (não)		não distes	não diste	não distemos	não disteis	não distem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin distāre.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /disˈtaɾ/
Rhymes: -aɾ
Syllabification: dis‧tar

Verb

distar (first-person singular present disto, first-person singular preterite disté, past participle distado)

(intransitive) to be far from

Conjugation

Conjugation of distar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

		singular			plural
infinitive			distar
gerund			distando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		distado		distada
		plural		distados		distadas
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	disto	distas^{^tú} distás^{^vos}	dista	distamos	distáis	distan
	imperfect	distaba	distabas	distaba	distábamos	distabais	distaban
	preterite	disté	distaste	distó	distamos	distasteis	distaron
	future	distaré	distarás	distará	distaremos	distaréis	distarán
	conditional	distaría	distarías	distaría	distaríamos	distaríais	distarían

subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	diste	distes^{^tú} distés^{^vos²}	diste	distemos	distéis	disten
	imperfect (ra)	distara	distaras	distara	distáramos	distarais	distaran
	imperfect (se)	distase	distases	distase	distásemos	distaseis	distasen
	future¹	distare	distares	distare	distáremos	distareis	distaren

imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		dista^{^tú} distá^{^vos}	diste	distemos	distad	disten
	negative		no distes	no diste	no distemos	no distéis	no disten

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

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Further reading

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

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