embasar

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Portuguese

Etymology

From em- +‎ base (base; basis) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈza(ʁ)/ , (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈza(ʁ)/
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈza(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈza(ɾ)/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈza(ʁ)/ , (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈza(ʁ)/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈza(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈza(ɻ)/
 

  • Hyphenation: em‧ba‧sar

Verb

embasar (first-person singular present embaso, first-person singular preterite embasei, past participle embasado)

  1. (transitive, architecture) to build (a building’s) foundation
  2. (transitive) to base
    Ele embasou a teoria nas suas observações.He based the theory on his observations.

Conjugation

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Spanish

Verb

embasar

  1. only used in se ... embasar, syntactic variant of embasarse