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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin meditārī.
Pronunciation
Verb
meditar (first-person singular present medito, first-person singular preterite medití, past participle meditat)
- (intransitive) to meditate (rest while remaining conscious)
2015, Emmanuel Carrére, El Regne, Anagrama, →ISBN:[…] uns quants anys més tard, em demanaré si és millor posarse a meditar abans o després dels exercicis de ioga.- a few years later, I'll wonder if it's better to start meditating before or after doing yoga exercises.
- (transitive, intransitive) to meditate, to ponder, to contemplate
2000, Salvador Llobet i Reverter: la geografia, entre ciència i passió, Institut d'Estudis Catalans, →ISBN, page 98:No és imprescindible estudiar moltes matèries, ni llegir molts llibres; poden ser pocs, però bons i ben meditats.- It's not essential to study many subjects or read many books; they can be few, as long as they're good and well-pondered.
Conjugation
Further reading
Ido
Etymology
From Latin meditor.
Pronunciation
Verb
meditar (present tense meditas, past tense meditis, future tense meditos, imperative meditez, conditional meditus)
- to ponder
Conjugation
See also
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin meditārī.
Pronunciation
Verb
meditar (first-person singular present medito, first-person singular preterite meditei, past participle meditado)
- to meditate
Conjugation
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin meditārī.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mediˈtaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: me‧di‧tar
Verb
meditar (first-person singular present medito, first-person singular preterite medité, past participle meditado)
- (intransitive) to meditate (rest while remaining conscious)
- 2015, Paloma Sainz Martínez Vara de Rey, Mindfulness para niños, Grupo Planeta Spain →ISBN
Toda persona debería aprender a meditar, y cuanto antes en la vida lo haga, tanto mejor.- Everyone should learn to meditate, and the sooner in life that they do, the better.
- (transitive, intransitive) to meditate, to ponder, to contemplate
2006, Juan C. González, Perspectivas contemporáneas sobre la cognición: categorización, percepción y conceptualización, Siglo XXI, →ISBN, page 77:No meditan sobre sus propias representaciones mentales.- They don't contemplate their own mental representations.
- Synonyms: considerar, contemplar, rumiar
Conjugation
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of meditar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
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singular
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plural
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1st person
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2nd person
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3rd person
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1st person
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2nd person
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3rd person
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with infinitive meditar
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dative
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meditarme
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meditarte
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meditarle, meditarse
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meditarnos
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meditaros
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meditarles, meditarse
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accusative
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meditarme
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meditarte
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meditarlo, meditarla, meditarse
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meditarnos
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meditaros
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meditarlos, meditarlas, meditarse
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with gerund meditando
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dative
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meditándome
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meditándote
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meditándole, meditándose
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meditándonos
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meditándoos
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meditándoles, meditándose
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accusative
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meditándome
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meditándote
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meditándolo, meditándola, meditándose
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meditándonos
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meditándoos
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meditándolos, meditándolas, meditándose
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with informal second-person singular tú imperative medita
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dative
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medítame
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medítate
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medítale
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medítanos
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not used
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medítales
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accusative
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medítame
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medítate
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medítalo, medítala
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medítanos
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not used
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medítalos, medítalas
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with informal second-person singular vos imperative meditá
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dative
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meditame
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meditate
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meditale
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meditanos
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not used
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meditales
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accusative
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meditame
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meditate
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meditalo, meditala
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meditanos
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not used
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meditalos, meditalas
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with formal second-person singular imperative medite
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dative
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medíteme
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not used
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medítele, medítese
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medítenos
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not used
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medíteles
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accusative
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medíteme
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not used
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medítelo, medítela, medítese
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medítenos
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not used
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medítelos, medítelas
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with first-person plural imperative meditemos
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dative
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not used
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meditémoste
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meditémosle
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meditémonos
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meditémoos
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meditémosles
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accusative
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not used
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meditémoste
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meditémoslo, meditémosla
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meditémonos
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meditémoos
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meditémoslos, meditémoslas
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with informal second-person plural imperative meditad
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dative
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meditadme
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not used
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meditadle
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meditadnos
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meditaos
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meditadles
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accusative
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meditadme
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not used
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meditadlo, meditadla
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meditadnos
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meditaos
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meditadlos, meditadlas
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with formal second-person plural imperative mediten
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dative
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medítenme
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not used
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medítenle
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medítennos
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not used
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medítenles, medítense
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accusative
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medítenme
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not used
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medítenlo, medítenla
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medítennos
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not used
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medítenlos, medítenlas, medítense
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