cortar
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Asturian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin curtāre, present active infinitive of curtō (“shorten”).
Verb[edit]
cortar (first-person singular indicative present corto, past participle cortáu)
- to cut
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of cortar
infinitive | cortar | ||||||
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gerund | cortando | ||||||
past participle | m cortáu, f cortada, n cortao, m pl cortaos, f pl cortaes | ||||||
person | first singular yo |
second singular tu |
third singular él/elli |
first plural nosotros/nós |
second plural vosotros/vós |
third plural ellos | |
indicative | present | corto | cortes | corta | cortamos | cortáis | corten |
imperfect | cortaba | cortabes | cortaba | cortábemos, cortábamos | cortabeis, cortabais | cortaben | |
preterite | corté | cortasti, cortesti | cortó | cortemos | cortastis, cortestis | cortaron | |
pluperfect | cortare, cortara | cortares, cortaras | cortare, cortara | cortáremos, cortáramos | cortareis, cortarais | cortaren, cortaran | |
future | cortaré | cortarás | cortará | cortaremos | cortaréis | cortarán | |
conditional | cortaría | cortaríes | cortaría | cortaríemos, cortaríamos | cortaríeis, cortaríais | cortaríen | |
subjunctive | present | corte | cortes, cortas | corte | cortemos | cortéis | corten, cortan |
imperfect | cortare, cortara | cortares, cortaras | cortare, cortara | cortáremos, cortáramos | cortareis, cortarais | cortaren, cortaran | |
imperative | — | corta | — | — | cortái | — |
See also[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese cortar, from Latin curtāre (“to shorten”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: cor‧tar
Verb[edit]
cortar (first-person singular present corto, first-person singular preterite cortei, past participle cortado)
- (transitive) to cut (to split using a sharp instrument)
- Eu me cortei no espinhal.
- I got cut in the thorn thicket.
- Corte a torta em sete pedaços.
- Cut the pie into seven pieces.
- Synonym: talhar
- (transitive) to cut (to trim or fashion nails, hair, grass, or something similar)
- A cabeleireira cortou meu cabelo mal.
- The hairdresser cut my hair badly.
- (transitive) to fell; to cut down; to chop down (to drop a tree by cutting its trunk)
- Preciso de uma licença para cortar essa imbuia.
- I need a license to cut down this imbuia.
- (intransitive) to cut (to be sharp enough to cut)
- Essa espada é decorativa; não corta.
- This sword is decorative; it doesn’t cut.
- (transitive) to cut (to remove or reduce a supply or provision)
- Querem cortar os gastos rápido!
- They want to cut the expenses fast!
- A companhia cortou a água do meu prédio porque eu não paguei a conta.
- The company cut the water supply to my building because I didn’t pay the bill.
- (transitive) to cross; to cut through (to have its course within)
- O rio Tejo corta Portugal.
- The Tagus crosses Portugal.
- (transitive) to cross; to intersect (to form an intersection with)
- Linhas paralelas nunca se cortam.
- Parallel lines never cross one another.
- A estrada da minha casa corta a avenida.
- The street of my house crosses the avenue.
- Synonym: cruzar
- (computing, transitive) to cut (to erase data such that it is moved to the clipboard)
- Corte esse parágrafo e cole-o na última página.
- Cut this paragraph and paste it in the last page.
- (card games, transitive, intransitive) to divide a recently shuffled deck into two sets
- Geralmente quem joga antes do distribuidor corta.
- Usually, the person who plays before the dealer cuts the deck.
- (transitive) to interrupt (to halt an ongoing process)
- Não conseguirei me explicar se você ficar me cortando.
- I won’t be able to explain myself if you keep interrupting me.
- (sports, transitive) to intercept (to get the ball while it is being passed)
- Silva cortou a bola e correu para o gol.
- Silva intercepted the ball and ran towards the goal.
- Synonym: interceptar
- (driving, transitive, intransitive) to overtake and move in front of another vehicle suddenly
- Quase bati num motoqueiro que me cortou.
- I almost hit a biker who moved in front of me.
- (transitive with para) to turn (to rotate and move to a perpendicular direction)
- Para chegar em Albuquerque, corte para a esquerda no segundo cruzamento.
- In order to reach Albuquerque, turn left at the second crossroad.
- Synonym: virar
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of cortar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Latin curtāre (“shorten”). Compare English curtail.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
cortar (first-person singular present corto, first-person singular preterite corté, past participle cortado)
- to cut
- Synonym: tajar
- to cut off, cut out, cut through, cut down, cut up, to nip
- to chop, chop up, chop off
- to slice, to slit
- to mow
- to slash, to hack
- to carve, to engrave
- to hang up, to terminate a telephone call
- Synonym: colgar
- (Chile, informal) to stop an action
- ¡Córtala!, déjame tranquilo.
- Stop it! leave me alone.
- Synonym: parar
- (Chile) to shut off
- Corta el agua, por favor.
- Shut the water off please.
- Synonym: cerrar
- to finish a relationship
- Deberías cortar con él.
- You should break up with him.
- (reflexive) to haircut
- to cut, to cut off, to slit (oneself or a part of the body)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of cortar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | cortar | ||||||
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gerund | cortando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | cortado | cortada | |||||
plural | cortados | cortadas | |||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | corto | cortastú cortásvos |
corta | cortamos | cortáis | cortan | |
imperfect | cortaba | cortabas | cortaba | cortábamos | cortabais | cortaban | |
preterite | corté | cortaste | cortó | cortamos | cortasteis | cortaron | |
future | cortaré | cortarás | cortará | cortaremos | cortaréis | cortarán | |
conditional | cortaría | cortarías | cortaría | cortaríamos | cortaríais | cortarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | corte | cortestú cortésvos2 |
corte | cortemos | cortéis | corten | |
imperfect (ra) |
cortara | cortaras | cortara | cortáramos | cortarais | cortaran | |
imperfect (se) |
cortase | cortases | cortase | cortásemos | cortaseis | cortasen | |
future1 | cortare | cortares | cortare | cortáremos | cortareis | cortaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | cortatú cortávos |
corte | cortemos | cortad | corten | ||
negative | no cortes | no corte | no cortemos | no cortéis | no corten |
Selected combined forms of cortar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “cortar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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