afortunar

Spanish

Etymology

From a- +‎ fortuna +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /afoɾtuˈnaɾ/ [a.foɾ.t̪uˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧for‧tu‧nar

Verb

afortunar (first-person singular present afortuno, first-person singular preterite afortuné, past participle afortunado)

1. (transitive, dated) to make lucky

Conjugation

    Conjugation of afortunar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			afortunar
gerund			afortunando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		afortunado		afortunada
		plural		afortunados		afortunadas
		singular			plural
		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	afortuno	afortunastú afortunásvos	afortuna	afortunamos	afortunáis	afortunan
	imperfect	afortunaba	afortunabas	afortunaba	afortunábamos	afortunabais	afortunaban
	preterite	afortuné	afortunaste	afortunó	afortunamos	afortunasteis	afortunaron
	future	afortunaré	afortunarás	afortunará	afortunaremos	afortunaréis	afortunarán
	conditional	afortunaría	afortunarías	afortunaría	afortunaríamos	afortunaríais	afortunarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	afortune	afortunestú afortunésvos2	afortune	afortunemos	afortunéis	afortunen
	imperfect (ra)	afortunara	afortunaras	afortunara	afortunáramos	afortunarais	afortunaran
	imperfect (se)	afortunase	afortunases	afortunase	afortunásemos	afortunaseis	afortunasen
	future1	afortunare	afortunares	afortunare	afortunáremos	afortunareis	afortunaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		afortunatú afortunávos	afortune	afortunemos	afortunad	afortunen
	negative		no afortunes	no afortune	no afortunemos	no afortunéis	no afortunen

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

Further reading

• “afortunar”, 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