menyscabar
Appearance
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin *minuscapāre. Cognate with Portuguese menoscabar.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [ˌmɛɲs.kəˈβa]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˌmeɲs.kəˈba]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˌmeɲs.kaˈbaɾ]
Verb
[edit]menyscabar (first-person singular present menyscabo, first-person singular preterite menyscabí, past participle menyscabat)
- (archaic, transitive, intransitive) to lessen, to diminish
- (archaic, transitive) to damage, to harm
- La Comissió LIBE per al Parlament Europeu informa que la crisi econòmica ha menyscabat els nostres drets fonamentals.
- The LIBE Committee of the European Parliament reports that the economic crises has harmed our fundamental rights.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of menyscabar (first conjugation)
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person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
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conditional | |||||||
subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
present | |||||||
imperfect | |||||||
imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
affirmative | — | ||||||
negative (no) | — | no menyscabis | no menyscabi | no menyscabem | no menyscabeu | no menyscabin |
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “menyscabar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “menyscabar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.