focar

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: fo‧car

Verb

focar (first-person singular present foco, first-person singular preterite foquei, past participle focado)

  1. (optics) (transitive) to focus (to cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point)
  2. to focus; to concentrate

Conjugation

    Conjugation of focar (c-qu alternation) (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 focar
Personal focar focares focar focarmos focardes focarem
Gerund
focando
Past participle
Masculine focado focados
Feminine focada focadas
Indicative
Present foco focas foca focamos focais focam
Imperfect focava focavas focava focávamos focáveis focavam
Preterite foquei focaste focou focamos1, focámos2 focastes focaram
Pluperfect focara focaras focara focáramos focáreis focaram
Future focarei focarás focará focaremos focareis focarão
Conditional focaria focarias focaria focaríamos focaríeis focariam
Subjunctive
Present foque foques foque foquemos foqueis foquem
Imperfect focasse focasses focasse focássemos focásseis focassem
Future focar focares focar focarmos focardes focarem
Imperative
Affirmative foca foque foquemos focai foquem
Negative (não) não foques não foque não foquemos não foqueis não foquem

1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.

Synonyms

Romanian

Etymology

From foc +‎ -ar or possibly Vulgar Latin *focārium, nominalization of the Late Latin adjective focārius, from Latin focus. Compare French foyer, from which the modern senses of the word were derived.

Noun

focar n (plural focare)

  1. (optics) focus
  2. (geometry) focus
  3. (archaic) pyre
    Synonym: rug
  4. (archaic, figuratively) calamity, disaster, misfortune
    Synonyms: calamitate, nenorocire
  5. (figuratively) hotbed
  6. (figuratively) focus, center
  7. furnace, hearth heating chamber
  8. firebox

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative focar focarul focare focarele
genitive-dative focar focarului focare focarelor
vocative focarule focarelor

Noun

focar m (plural focari)

  1. (archaic, popular) stoker, fireman
    Synonym: fochist

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative focar focarul focari focarii
genitive-dative focar focarului focari focarilor
vocative focarule focarilor
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