fingir

Borrowed from Latin fingere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”). See also the inherited doublet fènyer.

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fingir (first-person singular present fingeixo, first-person singular preterite fingí, past participle fingit)

1. to pretend (to act as though something is different from what it is)

• “fingir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fingir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “fingir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fingir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

fingir (first-person singular present finjo, first-person singular preterite fingim or fingi, past participle fingido, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of finxir

• “fingir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

fingir

1. second-person singular past active subjunctive of fá

Borrowed from Latin fingere, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”).

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• Hyphenation: fin‧gir

fingir (first-person singular present finjo, first-person singular preterite fingi, past participle fingido)

1. to pretend (to act as though something is different from what it is)

• “fingir” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “fingir”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “fingir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Borrowed from Latin fingere, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”). See also the inherited doublet heñir. Cognate with English feign and fiction.

• IPA^(key): /finˈxiɾ/
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: fin‧gir

fingir (first-person singular present finjo, first-person singular preterite fingí, past participle fingido)

1. to pretend (to act as though something is different from what it is)
2. to fake, affect, feign

• “fingir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10