enfrascar
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]enfrascar (first-person singular present enfrasco, first-person singular preterite enfrasqué, past participle enfrascado)
- (transitive) to bottle, (put in a bottle)
- (reflexive) to be deeply engaged or absorbed in (work, etc.)
- 1605, Miguel de Cervantes, “Capítulo I”, in El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, Primera parte:
- En resolución, él se enfrascó tanto en su letura, que se le pasaban las noches leyendo de claro en claro, y los días de turbio en turbio; y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el celebro de manera que vino a perder el juicio.
- In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of enfrascar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of enfrascar (c-qu alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Further reading
[edit]- “enfrascar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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