mantenir

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan mantenir, from Vulgar Latin *mantenīre, infinitive of *manteniō (“to support”), variant of Late Latin manuteneō, corresponding to Latin manū (“with the hand”) + teneō (“to hold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [mən.təˈni]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [man.teˈniɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [man.teˈni]

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Verb

mantenir (first-person singular present mantinc, first-person singular preterite mantinguí, past participle mantingut); root stress: (Northern) /e̞/; (Balearic, Central, Northwestern, Valencia) /e/

1. to maintain; to uphold; to keep going

Conjugation

    Central Catalan conjugation of mantenir (third conjugation, without -eix-, irregular, with velar infix)

infinitive			mantenir
gerund			mantenint
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		mantingut		mantinguda
		plural		mantinguts		mantingudes
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	mantinc	mantens	manté	mantenim	manteniu	mantenen
	imperfect	mantenia	mantenies	mantenia	manteníem	manteníeu	mantenien
	future	mantindré	mantindràs	mantindrà	mantindrem	mantindreu	mantindran
	preterite	mantinguí	mantingueres	mantingué	mantinguérem	mantinguéreu	mantingueren
	conditional	mantindria	mantindries	mantindria	mantindríem	mantindríeu	mantindrien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	mantingui	mantinguis	mantingui	mantinguem	mantingueu	mantinguin
	imperfect	mantingués	mantinguessis	mantingués	mantinguéssim	mantinguéssiu	mantinguessin
imperative		—	tu	vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres vós	vostès
	affirmative	—	mantén, mantingues	mantingui	mantinguem	manteniu, mantingueu	mantinguin
	negative (no)	—	no mantinguis	no mantingui	no mantinguem	no mantingueu	no mantinguin

Derived terms

• manteniment

Further reading

• “mantenir”, 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
• “mantenir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “mantenir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “mantenir”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Ido

Verb

mantenir

1. past infinitive of mantenar

Ladin

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mantenīre, infinitive of *manteniō (“I support”), variant of Late Latin manuteneō, corresponding to Latin manū (“with the hand”) + teneō (“to hold”).

Verb

mantenir

1. To maintain

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Conjugation of mantenir (fourth conjugation)

infinitive	mantenir, mantenì
auxiliary verb	avei		gerund		mantenian
past participle	mantenì
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	ie	tu	el / ela	nos	vos	ei / eles
present	mantene, mantenesce	mantenes, mantenesces	manten, mantenesc	mantenion	mantenieis	manten, mantenesc
imperfect	mantenive	mantenives	manteniva	mantenivan	mantenivais	manteniva
future	manteniré	manteniras	mantenirà	manteniron	mantenireis	mantenirà
subjunctive	che ie	che tu	che el / ela	che nos	che vos	che ei / eles
present	mantene, mantenesce	mantenes, mantenesces	mantene, mantenesce	mantenion	mantenieis	mantene, mantenesce
imperfect	mantenisse	mantenisses	mantenissa	mantenissan	mantenissais	mantenissa
imperative	–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
	—	manten, mantenesc	—	mantenion	mantenide	—