agardar

Galician

Alternative forms

• aguardar

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese aguardar (a- + gardar), ultimately from Frankish *wardon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aɣaɾˈðaɾ]

Verb

agardar (first-person singular present agardo, first-person singular preterite agardei, past participle agardado)

1. (transitive) to wait for
   • 1862, Manuel Magariños, Ferrocarril Compostelano:

     Non sei qué xuncras traguía na moleira o Seor Pedro, que o vin no outro onte carreirando, como un neno, e axuntando aos seus veciños, pra que onde ao seu palleiro fosen axiña a agoardá-lo; Eu non sei si un formigueiro de vermes lle boligaban entre os miolos dos sesos, pois semellaba a un doente, pro casi arrincando os pelos de debaixo da monteira, sin ton, nin son, e sin xeito; Eu non sei qué lle proía, eu non sei, si tiña o demo; porque os folgos eran fogos e os ollos dous candeeiros, e a cara toda prigada, amostrando os seus chavellos coa boca de un palmo aberta, babexado o fuciñeiro, parecía un estraloxe, un estraloxe de un vello

     I don't know what damned thing was bringing in his head Mr. Pedro, whom I saw the day before yesterday running around, as a kid, and gathering his neighbours asking them to come promptly to his barn and wait for him; I don't know if a colony of worms was scampering around the center of his brains, because he looked as a madman, almost pulling out the hair from under the hat, without rhyme of reason, and without care; I don't know what was itching him, I don't know if he was possessed by a demon; because his breath was fire and the eyes two lamps, and the face all folded, showing his fangs with mouth open wide, the snout drooling; he looked as a ravel, an old man's ravel

2. (intransitive) to wait, await
   • 1885, O Tío Marcos da Portela, II, 60, page 1:

     Poucos terán boas lembranzas do ano que se foi, porque escomenzou mal e non poido acabar pior. O inverno foi crúo, a primadeira esmorecida e chuviosa, o vrau abafante, o outono desleigado. Día por día pasáro-no contando os seus traballos e coitas os labregos, agardando pola súa redención os que viven escravos dos caciques d'aldea, pensando na súa terriña os emigrantes que morren lonxe dela, aduanando falcatruadas os que trunfan e medran á conta dos máis

     Few people will have good memories of last year, because it started badly and couldn't have ended worse: winter was harsh, spring rainy and faint, summer stifling, autumn sloppy. Day after day, the peasant spent their time telling about their troubles and disgraces, waiting for their redemption the ones who live enslaved by the village's richmen, longing their land the emigrants who die far away from her, plotting frauds those who trump and grow at the expense of others.

3. (transitive) to hope for
4. (transitive, archaic) to keep, watch

Conjugation

    Conjugation of agardar

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	agardar
Personal	agardar	agardares	agardar	agardarmos	agardardes	agardaren
Gerund
	agardando
Past participle
Masculine	agardado			agardados
Feminine	agardada			agardadas
Indicative
Present	agardo	agardas	agarda	agardamos	agardades	agardan
Imperfect	agardaba	agardabas	agardaba	agardabamos	agardabades	agardaban
Preterite	agardei	agardaches	agardou	agardamos	agardastes	agardaron
Pluperfect	agardara	agardaras	agardara	agardaramos	agardarades	agardaran
Future	agardarei	agardarás	agardará	agardaremos	agardaredes	agardarán
Conditional	agardaría	agardarías	agardaría	agardariamos	agardariades	agardarían
Subjunctive
Present	agarde	agardes	agarde	agardemos	agardedes	agarden
Imperfect	agardase	agardases	agardase	agardásemos	agardásedes	agardasen
Future	agardar	agardares	agardar	agardarmos	agardardes	agardaren
Imperative
Affirmative		agarda	agarde	agardemos	agardade	agarden
Negative (non)		non agardes	non agarde	non agardemos	non agardedes	non agarden

Synonyms

• esperar, mentrexar

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aguardar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “aguard”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “agardar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “agardar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “agardar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN