funcionar

funcionar (first-person singular indicative present funciono, past participle funcionáu)

1. to work, function

   Synonym: furrular

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

funcionar (first-person singular present funciono, first-person singular preterite funcioní, past participle funcionat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/

1. to work, function

• funcionament

• “funcionar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
• “funcionar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “funcionar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “funcionar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Derived from funciono +‎ -ar and borrowed from English function, French fonctionner, German funktionieren, Italian funzionare, Russian функциони́ровать (funkcionírovatʹ), Spanish funcionar.

• IPA^(key): /funt͡si̯oˈnar/

funcionar (present funcionas, past funcionis, future funcionos, conditional funcionus, imperative funcionez)

1. (intransitive) to function (all senses): to function, act (as)
2. (intransitive) to perform the duties
3. (intransitive) to fill an office
4. (intransitive) to work properly (of machinery, etc.)

Conjugation of funcionar

		present		past		future
infinitive		funcionar		funcionir		funcionor
tense		funcionas		funcionis		funcionos
conditional		funcionus		—		—
imperative		funcionez		—		—
adjective active participle		funcionanta		funcioninta		funciononta
adverbial active participle		funcionante		funcioninte		funciononte
nominal active participle	singular	funcionanto		funcioninto		funciononto
	plural	funcionanti		funcioninti		funciononti

• funccionar (pre-standardization spelling)

Borrowed from French fonctionner (“to function; to work”), from fonction + -er, from Latin fūnctiōnem (“function”). Equivalent to função +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: fun‧ci‧o‧nar

funcionar (first-person singular present funciono, first-person singular preterite funcionei, past participle funcionado)

1. to work; to function
   • 1934, Graciliano Ramos, chapter XI, in S. Bernardo‎, 1st edition, Rio de Janeiro: Ariel, Editora Ltda., page 68:

     Padilha jurou por todos os santos que a escola funccionava normalmente e que fazia cortar coração deixar tantas crianças sem o pão do saber.

     Padilha swore by all saints that the school functioned normally and that it broke hearts to leave so many children without the bread of knowledge.

From función +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /funθjoˈnaɾ/ (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /funsjoˈnaɾ/ (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fun‧cio‧nar

funcionar (first-person singular present funciono, first-person singular preterite funcioné, past participle funcionado)

1. (intransitive) to work, to function

• “funcionar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10