menoscabar
Portuguese
    
    Verb
    
menoscabar (first-person singular present menoscabo, first-person singular preterite menoscabei, past participle menoscabado)
- (transitive) to turn incomplete or imperfect
- (transitive, figuratively) to discredit, to disbelieve
- (transitive) to despise, to scorn, to look down on
- Synonyms: desprezar, menosprezar
 
Conjugation
    
    Conjugation of menoscabar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-person (eu) | Second-person (tu) | Third-person (ele / ela / você) | First-person (nós) | Second-person (vós) | Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Impersonal | ||||||
| Personal | ||||||
| Gerund | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | ||||||
| Feminine | ||||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | ||||||
| Imperfect | ||||||
| Preterite | 1, 2 | |||||
| Pluperfect | ||||||
| Future | ||||||
| Conditional | ||||||
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | ||||||
| Imperfect | ||||||
| Future | ||||||
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | ||||||
| Negative (não) | não menoscabes | não menoscabe | não menoscabemos | não menoscabeis | não menoscabem | |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Spanish
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /menoskaˈbaɾ/ [me.nos.kaˈβ̞aɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: me‧nos‧ca‧bar
Verb
    
menoscabar (first-person singular present menoscabo, first-person singular preterite menoscabé, past participle menoscabado)
- to lessen
- menoscabar su premio- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
 
 
- to sully; to mutilate
- to undermine
-  1908, Benito Pérez Galdós, España trágica, chapter 6:- Sin menoscabar el respeto que a su buen padrastro debía- (please add an English translation of this quote)
 
 
-  2014, Cristina Morató, Reinas malditas:- El soberano se había convertido en un monarca constitucional con poder limitado, pues los hechos de Varennes habían menoscabado su autoridad.- (please add an English translation of this quote)
 
 
 
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Conjugation
    
    Conjugation of menoscabar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | |||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | |||||||
| plural | |||||||
| 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 | tú vos | ||||||
| imperfect | |||||||
| preterite | |||||||
| future | |||||||
| conditional | |||||||
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | tú vos2 | ||||||
| imperfect (ra) | |||||||
| imperfect (se) | |||||||
| future1 | |||||||
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | tú vos | ||||||
| negative | no menoscabes | no menoscabe | no menoscabemos | no menoscabéis | no menoscaben | ||
    Selected combined forms of menoscabar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 tú imperative | |||||||
| dative | not used | ||||||
| accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
| with informal second-person singular vos 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 | , , | |||
Derived terms
    
Related terms
    
- menoscabo (“reduction”)
See also
    
Further reading
    
- “menoscabar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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