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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /enɡɾiˈʝaɾ/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /enɡɾiˈʎaɾ/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /enɡɾiˈʃaɾ/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /enɡɾiˈʒaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: en‧gri‧llar
Verb
engrillar (first-person singular present engrillo, first-person singular preterite engrillé, past participle engrillado)
- to shackle, fetter
2023 February 10, Iker Seisdedos, “Relatos de la peor mazmorra de Nicaragua: “Nos engrillaban para dormir o cuando nos llevaban al ‘túnel’. Allí te esperaban los golpes””, in El País:“Nos engrillaban para dormir. Dormir con grilletes es complicado”, continúa con voz decidida el muchacho, de 24 años […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
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