fungir

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin fungī.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /funˈxiɾ/
Rhymes: -iɾ
Syllabification: fun‧gir

Verb

fungir (first-person singular present funjo, first-person singular preterite fungí, past participle fungido)

(Latin America) to act as, to serve in a position
- 2016 May 25, “Ingeniero de BC viajará a Canadá para apoyar combate de incendios forestales”, in Frontera.info‎:
  El bajacaliforniano fungirá en esta tarea como un Representante Regional de Recursos de Interagencias (IARR por sus siglas en inglés), con la finalidad de definir el grado de ayuda que Canadá requerirá de México y las regiones en las que colaborarían los combatientes mexicanos.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of fungir (g-j alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

		singular			plural
infinitive			fungir
gerund			fungiendo
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		fungido		fungida
		plural		fungidos		fungidas
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	funjo	funges^{^tú} fungís^{^vos}	funge	fungimos	fungís	fungen
	imperfect	fungía	fungías	fungía	fungíamos	fungíais	fungían
	preterite	fungí	fungiste	fungió	fungimos	fungisteis	fungieron
	future	fungiré	fungirás	fungirá	fungiremos	fungiréis	fungirán
	conditional	fungiría	fungirías	fungiría	fungiríamos	fungiríais	fungirían

subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	funja	funjas^{^tú} funjás^{^vos²}	funja	funjamos	funjáis	funjan
	imperfect (ra)	fungiera	fungieras	fungiera	fungiéramos	fungierais	fungieran
	imperfect (se)	fungiese	fungieses	fungiese	fungiésemos	fungieseis	fungiesen
	future¹	fungiere	fungieres	fungiere	fungiéremos	fungiereis	fungieren

imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		funge^{^tú} fungí^{^vos}	funja	funjamos	fungid	funjan
	negative		no funjas	no funja	no funjamos	no funjáis	no funjan

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Related terms

fungible

Further reading

“fungir”, 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

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