extrañar
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
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Semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin extrāneāre, from Latin extrāneus. Doublet of extraño. Compare Portuguese estranhar.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /eɡstɾaˈɲaɾ/ [eɣ̞s.t̪ɾaˈɲaɾ]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: ex‧tra‧ñar
Verb
[edit]extrañar (first-person singular present extraño, first-person singular preterite extrañé, past participle extrañado)
- (transitive, Latin America, otherwise formal) to miss (someone or something)
- Synonyms: echar de menos, echar en falta, añorar
- 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “La nieve”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:
- No me van mal las cosas, me acuesto con putas y soy asiduo de dos bares en donde tengo mi tertulia, como dicen aquí. Pero por las noches, sobre todo por las noches, extraño Rusia y extraño Moscú.
- Things aren't going badly for me, I sleep with whores and I'm a regular at two bars where I have my circle, as they say here. But a night, more than anything at night, I miss Russia and I miss Moscow.
- to cause to find odd/strange
- Me extraña. ― That's odd.
- Me extraña que no hayan venido.
- I'm surprised they didn't come.
- No me extraña que él esté tan enojado consigo mismo.
- No wonder he's so mad at himself.
- (reflexive) to find something strange
- 1888, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Ismael[1], Buenos Aires: La Tribuna Nacional:
- Si entraba por casualidad a alguna capilla, se mantenía muy quieto y manso, con el sombrero en la mano, y hacía como que oía la misa, sin entender de ella la media, extrañándose que el cura comiera costras de pan y tomase vino delante de la gente.
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Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of extrañar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of extrañar
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “extrañar”, 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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