embrollar
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Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French embrouiller.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]embrollar (first-person singular present embrollo, first-person singular preterite embrollí, past participle embrollat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/
- (transitive) to muddle, confuse, complicate
- (reflexive) to embroil oneself, to get muddled up
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of embrollar (first conjugation)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “embrollar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French embrouiller.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /embɾoˈʝaɾ/ [ẽm.bɾoˈʝaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
- IPA(key): /embɾoˈʎaɾ/ [ẽm.bɾoˈʎaɾ] (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /embɾoˈʃaɾ/ [ẽm.bɾoˈʃaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /embɾoˈʒaɾ/ [ẽm.bɾoˈʒaɾ] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: em‧bro‧llar
Verb
[edit]embrollar (first-person singular present embrollo, first-person singular preterite embrollé, past participle embrollado)
- (transitive) to muddle, confuse
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of embrollar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of embrollar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “embrollar”, 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
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