impregnar

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impregnar (present tense impregnas, past tense impregnis, future tense impregnos, imperative impregnez, conditional impregnus)

1. to impregnate
2. to saturate

    Conjugation of impregnar

		present		past		future
infinitive		impregnar		impregnir		impregnor
tense		impregnas		impregnis		impregnos
conditional		impregnus
imperative		impregnez
adjective active participle		impregnanta		impregninta		impregnonta
adverbial active participle		impregnante		impregninte		impregnonte
nominal active participle	singular	impregnanto		impregninto		impregnonto
	plural	impregnanti		impregninti		impregnonti
adjective passive participle		impregnata		impregnita		impregnota
adverbial passive participle		impregnate		impregnite		impregnote
nominal passive participle	singular	impregnato		impregnito		impregnoto
	plural	impregnati		impregniti		impregnoti

Borrowed from Latin impraegnāre.

• Hyphenation: im‧preg‧nar

impregnar (first-person singular present impregno, first-person singular preterite impregnei, past participle impregnado)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to soak; pass on
2. (transitive, reflexive) to infiltrate; to penetrate
3. (transitive) to fill
4. (transitive) to impregnate, fertilize

Borrowed from Latin impraegnāre. Doublet of empreñar.

• IPA^(key): /impɾeɡˈnaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: im‧preg‧nar

impregnar (first-person singular present impregno, first-person singular preterite impregné, past participle impregnado)

1. (transitive) to impregnate, permeate (to fill pores or spaces with a substance)
   • 1928, Horacio Quiroga, El hijo:

     Un profundo zumbido que llena el ser entero e impregna el ámbito hasta donde la vista alcanza, concentra a esa hora toda la vida tropical.

     A deep hum that fills the whole being and permeates the environment as far as the eye can see, concentrating all tropical life on this hour.

• “impregnar”, 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