empregar
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese empregar, from Latin implicāre, present active infinitive of implicō (“I entangle”). Doublet of implicar.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Hyphenation: em‧pre‧gar
Verb
[edit]empregar (first-person singular present emprego, first-person singular preterite empreguei, past participle empregado)
- to employ (to give someone a job)
- Synonym: contratar
- to employ; to make use of (to put into use)
- (archaic) to put to good use
- 1470, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 362:
- tódolos outros diseron juntamente que esteueram no arroydo e que uiran matar ao irmao de Gonçaluo Roíz e seu cunhado e outros pyós e que uiram tyrar a Fernán de Sam Payo, e dyserom que ele fezera muytas fyrydas e matara ó dito Gonçaluo Roz, e que ouuera muitos dynheyros dos ditos fynados, e mais diseron que se gauaba que de XX tyros que tyrara que todos empregara, saluo dous
- all the rest said altogether that they were at the riot and that they saw how Gonzalvo Rois' brother, and his brother-in-law, and other pawns, were killed; and that they saw Fernán de Sampaio shooting; and they said that he caused many wounds and that he killed the aforementioned Gonzalvo Rois, and that he took many moneys from the dead; and they added that he was boasting that of twenty shots he had thrown, all but two were put to good use
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of empregar (g-gu alternation)
Reintegrated conjugation of empregar (g-gu alternation) (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)
1Less recommended.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “empregar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “empreg”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “empregar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “empregar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese empregar, from Latin implicāre (“to entangle”). Doublet of implicar.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ɻ)/
Verb
[edit]empregar (first-person singular present emprego, first-person singular preterite empreguei, past participle empregado)
- to employ (to give someone a job)
- to employ; to make use of (to put into use)
- Synonyms: usar, utilizar, fazer uso, aproveitar, aplicar
Usage notes
[edit]- A short past participle form empregue is sometimes also used in European Portuguese and informal Brazilian Portuguese, though this is considered nonstandard.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of empregar (g-gu alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From em- + prega (“fold, crease”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ɻ)/
Verb
[edit]empregar (first-person singular present emprego, first-person singular preterite empreguei, past participle empregado)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of empregar (g-gu alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
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