reprobar
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin reprobāre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]reprobar (first-person singular present repruebo, first-person singular preterite reprobé, past participle reprobado)
- (transitive) to condemn, disapprove, reprove
- Synonym: renunciar
- reprobamos la violencia
- we condemn the violence
- reprueban su papel
- they disapprove of her role
- 2020 August 27, “El Ayuntamiento de Barcelona reprueba el papel del Gobierno en la marcha de Juan Carlos I”, in El País[1]:
- (Latin America) to flunk, fail (to pass an exam, course etc.)
- 1997, Innovación curricular en las instituciones de educación superior:
- En el curso de lectura y redacción los resultados fueron, 54 % de aprobaron, 9 % reprobaron y el 37 % no terminaron el curso.
- In the reading and writing course, the results were: 54% passed, 9% failed and 37% didn't finish the course.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of reprobar (o-ue alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
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| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | tú vos |
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| subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | tú vos2 |
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| imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
| affirmative | tú vos |
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| negative | no repruebes | no repruebe | no reprobemos | no reprobéis | no reprueben | ||
Selected combined forms of reprobar (o-ue alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
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| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| with infinitive | dative | , | , | ||||
| accusative | , , | , , | |||||
| with gerund | dative | , | , | ||||
| accusative | , , | , , | |||||
| with informal second-person singular tuteo imperative | dative | not used | |||||
| accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
| with informal second-person singular voseo imperative | dative | not used | |||||
| accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
| with formal second-person singular imperative | dative | not used | , | not used | |||
| accusative | not used | , , | not used | , | |||
| with first-person plural imperative | dative | not used | |||||
| accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
| with informal second-person plural imperative | dative | not used | |||||
| accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
| with formal second-person plural imperative | dative | not used | not used | , | |||
| accusative | not used | , | not used | , , | |||
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “reprobar”, 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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