inventar

From invent +‎ -ar.

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

inventar (first-person singular present invento, first-person singular preterite inventí, past participle inventat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to invent

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /imbenˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: in‧ven‧tar

inventar (first-person singular present invento, first-person singular preterite inventei, past participle inventado)

1. (transitive) to invent (create or find a new thing or a new way of doing it)
2. (transitive) to invent (create with imagination a tale, story etc)
3. (transitive) to invent (present as true something that is not)

• “inventar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “inventar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

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inventar

1. to invent

    Lengadocian (Central Occitan)

		simple			compound
infinitive		inventar			aver inventat
gerund		inventant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		inventat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	inventi	inventas	inventa	inventam	inventatz	inventan
	imperfect	inventavi	inventavas	inventava	inventàvem	inventàvetz	inventavan
	preterite	inventèri	inventères	inventèt	inventèrem	inventèretz	inventèron
	future	inventarai	inventaràs	inventarà	inventarem	inventaretz	inventaràn
	conditional	inventariái	inventariás	inventariá	inventariam	inventariatz	inventarián
	conditional 2nd form1	inventèra	inventèras	inventèra	inventeram	inventeratz	inventèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	invente	inventes	invente	inventem	inventetz	inventen
	imperfect	inventèssi	inventèsses	inventèsse	inventèssem	inventèssetz	inventèsson
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			inventa		inventem	inventatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

    Auvernhàs

		simple			compound
infinitive		inventar			aver inventat
gerund		inventant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		inventat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	invente	inventes	inventa	inventam	inventatz	inventon
	imperfect	inventave	inventaves	inventava	inventaviam	inventaviatz	inventavon
	preterite	inventere	inventeres	inventet	inventem	inventetz	inventeron
	future	inventarai	inventaràs	inventará	inventarem	inventaretz	inventarán
	conditional	inventariá	inventariás	inventariá	inventariam	inventariatz	inventarián
	conditional 2nd form1	inventèra	inventèras	inventèra	inventeram	inventeratz	inventèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	invente	inventes	invente	inventassiam	inventassiatz	inventon
	imperfect	inventesse	inventesses	inventesse	inventessiam	inventessiatz	inventesson
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			inventa		inventassiam	inventatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

    Gascon

		simple			compound
infinitive		inventar			aver inventat
gerund		inventant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		inventat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	inventi	inventas	inventa	inventam	inventatz	inventan
	imperfect	inventavi	inventavas	inventava	inventàvam	inventàvatz	inventavan
	preterite	inventèi	inventès	inventè	inventèm	inventètz	inventèn
	future	inventarèi	inventaràs	inventarà	inventaram	inventaratz	inventaràn
	conditional	inventarí	inventarés	inventaré	inventarem	inventaretz	inventarén
	conditional 2nd form1	inventèra	inventèras	inventèra	inventeram	inventeratz	inventèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	inventi	inventes	invente	inventem	inventetz	inventen
	imperfect	inventèssi	inventèsses	inventèsse	inventèssem	inventèssetz	inventèssen
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			inventa		inventem	inventatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

    Lemosin

		simple			compound
infinitive		inventar			aver inventat
gerund		inventant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		inventat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	invente	inventas	inventa	inventam	inventatz	inventan
	imperfect	inventava	inventavas	inventava	inventàvam	inventàvatz	inventavan
	preterite	inventei	inventeras	inventet	inventèram	inventèratz	inventeran
	future	inventarai	inventaràs	inventará	inventarem	inventaretz	inventarán
	conditional	inventariá	inventariàs	inventariá	inventariam	inventariatz	inventarián
	conditional 2nd form1	inventèra	inventèras	inventèra	inventeram	inventeratz	inventèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	invente	inventes	invente	inventem	inventetz	inventen
	imperfect	inventèsse	inventèsses	inventèsse	inventèssem	inventèssetz	inventèssen
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			inventa		inventem	inventatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

    Provençau

		simple			compound
infinitive		inventar			aver inventat
gerund		inventant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		inventat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	invente	inventes	inventa	inventam	inventatz	inventan
	imperfect	inventavi	inventavas	inventava	inventàvem	inventàvetz	inventavan
	preterite	inventère	inventères	inventèt	inventeriam	inventeriatz	inventèron
	future	inventarai	inventaràs	inventarà	inventarem	inventaretz	inventaràn
	conditional	inventariáu	inventariás	inventariá	inventariam	inventariatz	inventarián
	conditional 2nd form1	inventèra	inventèras	inventèra	inventeram	inventeratz	inventèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	invente	inventes	invente	inventem	inventetz	inventan
	imperfect	inventèsse	inventèsses	inventèsse	inventessiam	inventessiatz	inventèsson
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			inventa		inventem	inventatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 383.

From invento, from Latin inventum, the supine form of inveniō (“find, discover”).

• Hyphenation: in‧ven‧tar

inventar (first-person singular present invento, first-person singular preterite inventei, past participle inventado)

1. to invent, devise
2. to imagine

For quotations using this term, see Citations:inventar.

• “inventar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “inventar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “inventar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from French inventaire.

inventar n (plural inventare)

1. inventory

From invento (“invention”), from Latin inventum, the supine form of inveniō (“find, discover”).

• IPA^(key): /imbenˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: in‧ven‧tar

inventar (first-person singular present invento, first-person singular preterite inventé, past participle inventado)

1. to invent
2. to feign

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

From invento, from Latin inventum, the supine form of inveniō (“find, discover”). Compare Italian inventare.

inventar

1. (transitive) to invent
2. (transitive) to fabricate

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.