enfeinar
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Catalan
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From en- + feina (“work”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]enfeinar (first-person singular present enfeino, first-person singular preterite enfeiní, past participle enfeinat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/
- (transitive) to load with work; to swamp
- 2020 June 22, Francesc de Carreras, “La política infantil”, in El País[1]:
- Al Govern li havien canviat les preguntes i, com és obvi, no tenia preparades les respostes. Estava enfeinat en altres coses. Començava a viure en la nova realitat.
- The Government was asked new questions and obviously hadn't prepared answers to them. It was too busy with other things. It started to live in the new reality.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of enfeinar (first conjugation)
Further reading
[edit]- “enfeinar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.