pasterizar

Spanish

Alternative forms

• pasteurizar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pasteɾiˈθaɾ/ [pas.t̪e.ɾiˈθaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /pasteɾiˈsaɾ/ [pas.t̪e.ɾiˈsaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pas‧te‧ri‧zar

Verb

pasterizar (first-person singular present pasterizo, first-person singular preterite pastericé, past participle pasterizado)

1. (transitive) to pasteurize

Conjugation

    Conjugation of pasterizar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			pasterizar
gerund			pasterizando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		pasterizado		pasterizada
		plural		pasterizados		pasterizadas
		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	pasterizo	pasterizastú pasterizásvos	pasteriza	pasterizamos	pasterizáis	pasterizan
	imperfect	pasterizaba	pasterizabas	pasterizaba	pasterizábamos	pasterizabais	pasterizaban
	preterite	pastericé	pasterizaste	pasterizó	pasterizamos	pasterizasteis	pasterizaron
	future	pasterizaré	pasterizarás	pasterizará	pasterizaremos	pasterizaréis	pasterizarán
	conditional	pasterizaría	pasterizarías	pasterizaría	pasterizaríamos	pasterizaríais	pasterizarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	pasterice	pastericestú pastericésvos2	pasterice	pastericemos	pastericéis	pastericen
	imperfect (ra)	pasterizara	pasterizaras	pasterizara	pasterizáramos	pasterizarais	pasterizaran
	imperfect (se)	pasterizase	pasterizases	pasterizase	pasterizásemos	pasterizaseis	pasterizasen
	future1	pasterizare	pasterizares	pasterizare	pasterizáremos	pasterizareis	pasterizaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		pasterizatú pasterizávos	pasterice	pastericemos	pasterizad	pastericen
	negative		no pasterices	no pasterice	no pastericemos	no pastericéis	no pastericen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “pasterizar”, 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