anar

See also: Anar, Anár, añar, ānar, and -anar

Catalan

Etymology

From an verb (compare Occitan anar), possibly from Vulgar Latin *amnāre (“to walk, to go”), variant form of *amlāre, from Latin ambulāre, present active infinitive of ambulō (“I travel, walk”). However, amblar also existed in Old Occitan (compare Catalan and Occitan amblar). Compare also French aller. Alternatively, anar may derive from Vulgar Latin *and(i)tāre (“to go (around)”), from *ambitāre, frequentative of Latin ambiō, ambire (compare Spanish andar, Italian andare), or perhaps adnāre. The forms beginning with v- are from vadō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈnaɾ]

Verb

1. to go
2. (auxiliary verb, taking an infinitive) Used to form the periphrastic preterite; see usage notes below for more information.

   Ahir vaig parlar amb ma germana.

   Yesterday, I spoke with my sister.

Conjugation

    (Central Catalan) Conjugation of anar (first conjugation, auxiliary)

person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	vaig	vas vares	va	vam vàrem	vau vàreu	van varen
subjunctive	jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	vagi	vagis	vagi	vàgim	vàgiu	vagin

    (Valencian) Conjugation of anar (first conjugation, auxiliary)

person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	vaig	vas vares	va	vam vàrem	vau vàreu	van varen
subjunctive	jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	vaja	vages	vaja	vàgem	vàgeu	vagen

Usage notes

The second set of conjugations are used along with the infinitive of another verb in order to form the "periphrastic past" (passat perifràstic), an analytical construction equivalent in terms of tense and aspect to the simple preterite. For example, vaig cantar bears the same meaning as cantí ('I sang').

The indicative forms of the auxiliary, except for the third-person singular, may be reinforced with -re-, but, in the standard language, only when the corresponding normal first-conjugation simple preterite endings have it. For example, vares cantar may be used instead of vas cantar but not *vàreig cantar instead of vaig cantar; compare the typical second-person singular ending -ares with its first-person singular equivalent -í. The subjunctive forms are literary and only sporadically occur, and so rather than the periphrastic past subjunctive, it is typical for the imperfect subjunctive to be used (therefore cantés rather than vagi cantar, for example), despite the demand for the perfective aspect.

Further reading

• “anar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “anar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “anar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “anar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• Gramàtica de la llengua catalana.

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French

Adjective

anar (plural anars)

1. anarchist

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Kott

Alternative forms

• ānar

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Yeniseian *ʔan- "haunch". Compare Arin an and Pumpokol aniŋ "legs".

Noun

anar

1. haunch

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• vader

Etymology

From an Old Occitan verb (compare Catalan anar), possibly from a Vulgar Latin *and(it)āre, from *ambitāre, frequentative of Latin ambiō, ambīre (compare Spanish andar, Italian andare), or perhaps adnāre. Alternatively from a Vulgar Latin *amnāre < *amlāre, from Latin ambulāre, present active infinitive of ambulō (however, Old Occitan had a separate word amblar, whence Catalan and Occitan amblar). Compare also French aller. The forms beginning with v- are from vadō.

Pronunciation

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Verb

anar

1. to go

Conjugation

    Lengadocian (Central Occitan)

		simple			compound
infinitive		anar			aver anant
gerund		anar			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		anant			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	anat	vau	vas	va	anèm	anètz
	imperfect	van	anavi	anavas	anava	anàvem	anàvetz
	preterite	anavan	anarai	anaràs	anarà	anarem	anaretz
	future	anaràn	anèri	anères	anèt	anèrem	anèretz
	conditional	anèron	anariái	anariás	anariá	anariam	anariatz
	conditional 2nd form1	anatz
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	anarián	ane	anes	ane	anem	anetz
	imperfect	anen	anèssi	anèsses	anèsse	anèssem	anèssetz
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			anèsson		vai	anem	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

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Swedish

Verb

anar

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of ana.

Anagrams

• -arna