afectar
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Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin affectāre. See also the doublet afaitar.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.fəkˈta]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [a.fekˈtaɾ]
Audio (Barcelona): (file) - Homophone: afectà
- Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
Verb
[edit]afectar (first-person singular present afecto, first-person singular preterite afectí, past participle afectat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/
- (transitive) to feign, pretend
- to play dumb
- (transitive) to affect
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of afectar (first conjugation)
| infinitive | afectar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | afectant | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | afectat | afectada | |||||
| plural | afectats | afectades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | afecto | afectes | afecta | afectem | afecteu | afecten | |
| imperfect | afectava | afectaves | afectava | afectàvem | afectàveu | afectaven | |
| future | afectaré | afectaràs | afectarà | afectarem | afectareu | afectaran | |
| preterite | afectí | afectares | afectà | afectàrem | afectàreu | afectaren | |
| conditional | afectaria | afectaries | afectaria | afectaríem | afectaríeu | afectarien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | afecti | afectis | afecti | afectem | afecteu | afectin | |
| imperfect | afectés | afectessis | afectés | afectéssim | afectéssiu | afectessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | afecta | afecti | afectem | afecteu | afectin | |
| negative (no) | — | no afectis | no afecti | no afectem | no afecteu | no afectin | |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “afectar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “afectar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “afectar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “afectar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]afectar (first-person singular present afecto, first-person singular preterite afectei, past participle afectado)
- (European Portuguese spelling) pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of afetar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of afectar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
[edit]- “afectar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin affectāre. See also the doublets afeitar and ahechar.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]afectar (first-person singular present afecto, first-person singular preterite afecté, past participle afectado)
- to affect, to have an effect on, to influence
- to feign, to affect
- to speak or act insincerely, adopt an affectation
- to impair, to affect (negatively)
- El alcohol puede afectar su juicio.
- Alcohol can impair your judgment.
- to get to, to get under one's skin, to upset, to affect emotionally
- No dejes que te afecte.
- Don't let it get to you.
- (pronominal) to be affected (by an action), to get to
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of afectar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of afectar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “afectar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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