reinflar

Catalan

Etymology

From re- +‎ inflar.

Verb

reinflar (first-person singular present reinflo, first-person singular preterite reinflí, past participle reinflat)

1. (transitive) reinflate
2. (pronominal) (especially of wood) to swell
   • 1962, Mercè Rodoreda, La plaça del Diamant:

     Vaig sortir al carrer i la vaig ajudar a tancar la porta empenyent des del carrer amb un genoll i ella deia que la fusta s'havia reinflat amb les pluges i que per això la porta arrossegava.

     I went out to the street and helped her to close the door by pushing with the knee from the street and she said that the wood had swollen with the rains and that because of this the door was catching.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of reinflar (first conjugation)

infinitive			reinflar
gerund			reinflant
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		reinflat		reinflada
		plural		reinflats		reinflades
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	reinflo	reinfles	reinfla	reinflem	reinfleu	reinflen
	imperfect	reinflava	reinflaves	reinflava	reinflàvem	reinflàveu	reinflaven
	future	reinflaré	reinflaràs	reinflarà	reinflarem	reinflareu	reinflaran
	preterite	reinflí	reinflares	reinflà	reinflàrem	reinflàreu	reinflaren
	conditional	reinflaria	reinflaries	reinflaria	reinflaríem	reinflaríeu	reinflarien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	reinfli	reinflis	reinfli	reinflem	reinfleu	reinflin
	imperfect	reinflés	reinflessis	reinflés	reinfléssim	reinfléssiu	reinflessin
imperative		—	tu	vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres vós	vostès
	affirmative	—	reinfla	reinfli	reinflem	reinfleu	reinflin
	negative (no)	—	no reinflis	no reinfli	no reinflem	no reinfleu	no reinflin

Derived terms

• reinflament

Further reading

• “reinflar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “reinflar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “reinflar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.