embaír

See also: embair

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *invādīre, from Latin invādere. Doublet of invadir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /embaˈiɾ/ [ẽm.baˈiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: em‧ba‧ír

Verb

embaír (no stressed present indicative or subjunctive, first-person singular preterite embaí, past participle embaído)

1. to cheat

Conjugation

    Conjugation of embaír (defective) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			embaír
gerund			embayendo
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		embaído		embaída
		plural		embaídos		embaídas
		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	—	—tú embaísvos	—	embaímos	embaís	—
	imperfect	embaía	embaías	embaía	embaíamos	embaíais	embaían
	preterite	embaí	embaíste	embayó	embaímos	embaísteis	embayeron
	future	embairé	embairás	embairá	embairemos	embairéis	embairán
	conditional	embairía	embairías	embairía	embairíamos	embairíais	embairían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	—	—	—	—	—	—
	imperfect (ra)	embayera	embayeras	embayera	embayéramos	embayerais	embayeran
	imperfect (se)	embayese	embayeses	embayese	embayésemos	embayeseis	embayesen
	future1	embayere	embayeres	embayere	embayéremos	embayereis	embayeren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		—tú embaívos	—	—	embaíd	—
	negative		—	—	—	—	—

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.

See also

• invadir

Further reading

• “embaír”, 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