focalizar
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Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: fo‧ca‧li‧zar
Verb
[edit]focalizar (first-person singular present focalizo, first-person singular preterite focalizei, past participle focalizado)
- (transitive) to focus (to cause light to converge at a single point)
- (intransitive, of light rays) to converge at a single point
- (transitive) to focus (to adjust the lens of an optical instrument)
- (with em) to focus (to concentrate one’s attention)
- Synonyms: focar, concentrar-se
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of focalizar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
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[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English focalize.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /fokaliˈθaɾ/ [fo.ka.liˈθaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /fokaliˈsaɾ/ [fo.ka.liˈsaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: fo‧ca‧li‧zar
Verb
[edit]focalizar (first-person singular present focalizo, first-person singular preterite focalicé, past participle focalizado)
- to focus
- (photography) to focus
- (investment) to target
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of focalizar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of focalizar (c-z alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “focalizar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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