arruar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ʁuˈa(ʁ)/ [a.hʊˈa(h)], (faster pronunciation) /aˈʁwa(ʁ)/ [aˈhwa(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ʁuˈa(ʁ)/ [a.hʊˈa(h)], (faster pronunciation) /aˈʁwa(ʁ)/ [aˈhwa(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /a.ʁuˈa(ɾ)/ [a.hʊˈa(ɾ)], (faster pronunciation) /aˈʁwa(ɾ)/ [aˈhwa(ɾ)]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.ʁuˈa(ʁ)/ [a.χʊˈa(χ)], (faster pronunciation) /aˈʁwa(ʁ)/ [aˈχwa(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ʁuˈa(ɻ)/ [a.hʊˈa(ɻ)], (faster pronunciation) /aˈʁwa(ɻ)/ [aˈhwa(ɻ)]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈʁwaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈʁwaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈʁwa.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: ar‧ru‧ar

Verb

arruar (first-person singular present arruo, first-person singular preterite arruei, past participle arruado)

1. to align (as a pattern of streets)
2. to loaf

Conjugation

    Conjugation of arruar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	arruar
Personal	arruar	arruares	arruar	arruarmos	arruardes	arruarem
Gerund
	arruando
Past participle
Masculine	arruado			arruados
Feminine	arruada			arruadas
Indicative
Present	arruo	arruas	arrua	arruamos	arruais	arruam
Imperfect	arruava	arruavas	arruava	arruávamos	arruáveis	arruavam
Preterite	arruei	arruaste	arruou	arruamos1, arruámos2	arruastes	arruaram
Pluperfect	arruara	arruaras	arruara	arruáramos	arruáreis	arruaram
Future	arruarei	arruarás	arruará	arruaremos	arruareis	arruarão
Conditional	arruaria	arruarias	arruaria	arruaríamos	arruaríeis	arruariam
Subjunctive
Present	arrue	arrues	arrue	arruemos	arrueis	arruem
Imperfect	arruasse	arruasses	arruasse	arruássemos	arruásseis	arruassem
Future	arruar	arruares	arruar	arruarmos	arruardes	arruarem
Imperative
Affirmative		arrua	arrue	arruemos	arruai	arruem
Negative (não)		não arrues	não arrue	não arruemos	não arrueis	não arruem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈrwaɾ/ [aˈrwaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧rruar

Verb

arruar (first-person singular present arrúo, first-person singular preterite arrué, past participle arruado)

1. (of boars) to grunt

   Synonym: gruñir

Conjugation

    Conjugation of arruar (u-ú alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			arruar
gerund			arruando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		arruado		arruada
		plural		arruados		arruadas
		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	arrúo	arrúastú arruásvos	arrúa	arruamos	arruáis	arrúan
	imperfect	arruaba	arruabas	arruaba	arruábamos	arruabais	arruaban
	preterite	arrué	arruaste	arruó	arruamos	arruasteis	arruaron
	future	arruaré	arruarás	arruará	arruaremos	arruaréis	arruarán
	conditional	arruaría	arruarías	arruaría	arruaríamos	arruaríais	arruarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	arrúe	arrúestú arruésvos2	arrúe	arruemos	arruéis	arrúen
	imperfect (ra)	arruara	arruaras	arruara	arruáramos	arruarais	arruaran
	imperfect (se)	arruase	arruases	arruase	arruásemos	arruaseis	arruasen
	future1	arruare	arruares	arruare	arruáremos	arruareis	arruaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		arrúatú arruávos	arrúe	arruemos	arruad	arrúen
	negative		no arrúes	no arrúe	no arruemos	no arruéis	no arrúen

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

Further reading

• “arruar”, 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