desleír
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin dēlēre (“to destroy”), adapted to des-. Compare Portuguese delir and English delete.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]desleír (first-person singular present deslío, first-person singular preterite desleí, past participle desleído)
- to dilute
- Synonym: diluir
- to dissolve
- Synonym: disolver
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- [...] descargó una lluvia tremenda, espantosa, un diluvio que parecía inundar la tierra y desleír a Ficóbriga.
- [...] discharged a terrible, frightful rain, a downpour which seemed to flood the lands and dissolve Ficóbriga.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of desleír (e-í alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | desleír | ||||||
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gerund | desliendo | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | desleído | desleída | |||||
plural | desleídos | desleídas | |||||
singular | plural | ||||||
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 | deslío | deslíestú desleísvos |
deslíe | desleímos | desleís | deslíen | |
imperfect | desleía | desleías | desleía | desleíamos | desleíais | desleían | |
preterite | desleí | desleíste | deslió | desleímos | desleísteis | deslieron | |
future | desleiré | desleirás | desleirá | desleiremos | desleiréis | desleirán | |
conditional | desleiría | desleirías | desleiría | desleiríamos | desleiríais | desleirían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | deslía | deslíastú desliásvos2 |
deslía | desliamos | desliáis | deslían | |
imperfect (ra) |
desliera | deslieras | desliera | desliéramos | deslierais | deslieran | |
imperfect (se) |
desliese | deslieses | desliese | desliésemos | deslieseis | desliesen | |
future1 | desliere | deslieres | desliere | desliéremos | desliereis | deslieren | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | deslíetú desleívos |
deslía | desliamos | desleíd | deslían | ||
negative | no deslías | no deslía | no desliamos | no desliáis | no deslían |
Selected combined forms of desleír (e-í alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Further reading
[edit]- “desleír”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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