sonar

See also Sonar, and soñar

English

Etymology

Wikipedia

Acronym from sound navigation and ranging.

Noun

sonar (plural sonars)

1. (nautical) echolocation
2. (nautical) A device that uses hydrophones (in the same manner as radar) to locate objects underwater.

Derived terms

• Doppler sonar

Translations

device

Chinese: Mandarin: 聲納 (cmn), 声纳 (cmn) (shēngnà) Esperanto: sonaro (eo) Finnish: kaikuluotain (fi) French: sonar (fr) m.

German: Sonar (de) n. Icelandic: ómsjá (is) f., sónar (is) m. Italian: idrofono (it) m. Spanish: sónar (es) m.

Anagrams

• arson
• roans
• sorna

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Catalan

Etymology

From so.

Verb

sonar (first-person singular present sono, past participle sonat)

1. to sound, to make a sound
2. to ring, to buzz

Conjugation

    Conjugation of sonar (first conjugation, type cantar)

infinitive			sonar
present participle			sonant
past participle			sonat
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
Indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	sono	sones	sona	sonem	soneu	sonen
	imperfect	sonava	sonaves	sonava	sonàvem	sonàveu	sonaven
	future	sonaré	sonaràs	sonarà	sonarem	sonareu	sonaran
	preterite	soní	sonares	sonà	sonàrem	sonàreu	sonaren
	conditional	sonaria	sonaries	sonaria	sonaríem	sonaríeu	sonarien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella	nosaltres	vosaltres	ells/elles
	present	soni	sonis	soni	sonem	soneu	sonin
	imperfect	sonés	sonessis	sonés	sonéssim	sonéssiu	sonessin
imperative		-	tu	ell/ella	nosaltres	vosaltres	ells/elles
			sona	soni	sonem	soneu	sonin

Noun

sonar m. (uncountable)

1. sonar

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Ido

Verb

sonar (present tense sonas, past tense sonis, future tense sonos, imperative sonez, conditional sonus)

1. to ring

Conjugation

Conjugation of sonar

	present	past	future
tense	sonas	sonis	sonos
perfect		sonabis	sonabos
infinitive	sonar	sonir	sonor
active participle	sonanta	soninta	sononta
nominal active participle	sonanto pl. sonanti	soninto pl. soninti	sononto pl. sononti
adverbial active participle	sonante	soninte	sononte
passive participle	sonata	sonita	sonota
nominal passive participle	sonato pl. sonati	sonito pl. soniti	sonoto pl. sonoti
adverbial passive participle	sonate	sonite	sonote
imperative	sonez	sonabez
conditional	sonus	sonabus

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English sonar.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sǒnaːr/
• Hyphenation: so‧nar

Noun

sònār m. (Cyrillic spelling со̀на̄р)

1. sonar

Declension

    declension of sonar

	singular	plural
nominative	sònār	sonari
genitive	sonára	sonara
dative	sonaru	sonarima
accusative	sonar	sonare
vocative	sonare	sonari
locative	sonaru	sonarima
instrumental	sonarom	sonarima

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Spanish

Etymology

Latin sonare

Verb

sonar (first-person singular present sueno, first-person singular preterite soné, past participle sonado)

1. to sound, to ring
2. (figuratively) to ring a bell

   Me suena el nombre, per no lo ubico.

   His name rings a bell but I can't place him.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of sonar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

Rule: o becomes a ue in stressed syllables.

infinitive			sonar
gerund			sonando
past participle			sonado
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú	él/ella usted	nosotros	vosotros	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	sueno	suenas	suena	sonamos	sonáis	suenan
	imperfect	sonaba	sonabas	sonaba	sonábamos	sonabais	sonaban
	preterite	soné	sonaste	sonó	sonamos	sonasteis	sonaron
	future	sonaré	sonarás	sonará	sonaremos	sonaréis	sonarán
	conditional	sonaría	sonarías	sonaría	sonaríamos	sonaríais	sonarían
subjunctive		yo	tú	él/ella usted	nosotros	vosotros	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	suene	suenes	suene	sonemos	sonéis	suenen
	imperfect (ra)	sonara	sonaras	sonara	sonáramos	sonarais	sonaran
	imperfect (se)	sonase	sonases	sonase	sonásemos	sonaseis	sonasen
	future	sonare	sonares	sonare	sonáremos	sonareis	sonaren
imperative		—	tú	usted	nosotros	vosotros	ustedes
	affirmative		suena	suene	sonemos	sonad	suenen
	negative		no suenes	no suene	no sonemos	no sonéis	no suenen

Other verbs with this conjugation:

[+] Spanish verbs ending in -ar (conjugation o-ue)

Related terms

son sonadero sonador

sonajera sonido sonoro

See also

• sondear

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Swedish

Verb

sonar

1. present tense of sona.

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Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian suonare

Verb

sonar (transitive)

1. To play or sound

Conjugation

    Conjugation of sonar ( 1st conjugation regular)

infinitive	sonar
auxiliary verb		aver	gerund		sonando
past participle		sonà		NB: clitic pronouns (bold) are obligatory
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	mi	ti te	eło el / eła ła	noialtri / noialtre	voialtri / voialtre	łuri i / łore łe
present	sono	soni	sona	sonémo, sonòn	soné	sona
imperfect	sonava	sonavi	sonava	sonàvimo	sonavi	sonava
future	sonarò	sonarè	sonarà	sonarémo	sonarè	sonarà
conditional	mi	ti te	eło el / eła ła	noialtri / noialtre	voialtri / voialtre	łuri i / łore łe
present	sonarìa	sonarisi	sonarìa	sonarìsimo	sonarisi	sonarìa
subjunctive	che mi	che ti te	che eło el / eła ła	che noialtri / noialtre	che voialtri / noialtre	che łuri i / łore łe
present	sone, sona	soni	sone, sona	sonémo, sonone	soné	sone, sona
imperfect	sonase	sonasi	sonase	sonàsimo	sonasi	sonase
imperative	-	ti te	eło el / eła ła	noialtri / noialtre	voialtri / voialtre	łuri i / łore łe
		sona	sona, sone	sonémo	soné	sona, sone