contrahacer
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From contra (“against”) + hacer (“to make”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kontɾaaˈθeɾ/ [kõn̪.t̪ɾa.aˈθeɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /kontɾaaˈseɾ/ [kõn̪.t̪ɾa.aˈseɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -eɾ
- Syllabification: con‧tra‧ha‧cer
Verb
[edit]contrahacer (first-person singular present contrahago, first-person singular preterite contrahíce, past participle contrahecho)
- (transitive) to counterfeit, to fake or imitate
- (reflexive) to pretend to be
- Synonym: fingir
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of contrahacer (irregular) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading
[edit]- “contrahacer”, 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
Categories:
- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱe
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- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁-
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- Rhymes:Spanish/eɾ
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