desfogar
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Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]desfogar (first-person singular present desfogo, first-person singular preterite desfoguí, past participle desfogat)
- (transitive, also figurative) to vent
- 1947, Sebastià Juan Arbó, Tino Costa:
- Mila la cantava ara a mitja veu, tremolosa, per tal de desfogar el seu pit d'aquell sentiment que l'enfebrosia, i en el to de la cançó l'ànima semblava plorar-li.
- Mila sang now at half strength, shaky, in order to unburden her heart of the sentiment that enfevered it, and in the sound of the song her soul seemed to be crying to him.
- (pronominal, intransitive, figurative) to let off steam, to unburden oneself
- 1961, Josep Roig i Raventós, El quillat foraster:
- —"Plora, fill meu, plora! Plora i desfoga't! Les llàgrimes et netejaran les entranyes de la pena i l'esglai que duies dins!
- Cry, my son, cry! Cry and unburden yourself! The tears will cleanse your entrails of the suffering and fear that you were carrying inside!"
- (pronominal, transitive, figurative) to give vent to
- (intransitive, nautical) (of a storm) to burst
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of desfogar (first conjugation, g-gu alternation)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “desfogar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]desfogar (first-person singular present desfogo, first-person singular preterite desfogué, past participle desfogado)
- to deflower
- (colloquial) to let off steam
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of desfogar (g-gu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of desfogar (g-gu alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “desfogar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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