desballestar
Catalan
Verb
desballestar (first-person singular present desballesto, past participle desballestat)
- (transitive) to take apart, dismantle
- 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 2, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
- Les van desballestar allà mateix. A l'interior d'una barra de ferro de la meva bicicleta van trobar-hi la carta.
- They took them apart right there. Inside an iron bar of my bicycle they found the letter.
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- (transitive) to salvage, to cannibalise (remove parts from a defective machine to use elsewhere)
- (transitive) to put out of order, to wreck
- (reflexive) to break down, (of a person) to have a breakdown
- Sembla que alguna cosa s'ha desballestat a la moto, ja que la bateria és nova.
- It seems like something has broken down in the motorcycle since the battery is new.
Conjugation
Conjugation of desballestar (first conjugation)
| infinitive | desballestar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | desballestant | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | desballestat | desballestada | |||||
| plural | desballestats | desballestades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | desballesto | desballestes | desballesta | desballestem | desballesteu | desballesten | |
| imperfect | desballestava | desballestaves | desballestava | desballestàvem | desballestàveu | desballestaven | |
| future | desballestaré | desballestaràs | desballestarà | desballestarem | desballestareu | desballestaran | |
| preterite | desballestí | desballestares | desballestà | desballestàrem | desballestàreu | desballestaren | |
| conditional | desballestaria | desballestaries | desballestaria | desballestaríem | desballestaríeu | desballestarien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | desballesti | desballestis | desballesti | desballestem | desballesteu | desballestin | |
| imperfect | desballestés | desballestessis | desballestés | desballestéssim | desballestéssiu | desballestessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| — | desballesta | desballesti | desballestem | desballesteu | desballestin | ||
Synonyms
- (take apart): desmuntar, desfer
- (wreck): desajustar, desgavellar
Derived terms
- desballestament
- desballestat
Further reading
- “desballestar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /desbaʝesˈtaɾ/ [d̪ez.β̞a.ʝesˈt̪aɾ]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /desbaʎesˈtaɾ/ [d̪ez.β̞a.ʎesˈt̪aɾ]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /desbaʃesˈtaɾ/ [d̪ez.β̞a.ʃesˈt̪aɾ]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /desbaʒesˈtaɾ/ [d̪ez.β̞a.ʒesˈt̪aɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: des‧ba‧lles‧tar
Verb
desballestar (first-person singular present desballesto, first-person singular preterite desballesté, past participle desballestado)
- to unsettle
- 2015 November 6, “Entrevista”, in El País:
- Recuerda, además, Zanón que vivía con sus padres y los cuatro abuelos: "Siempre había alguien en casa, era una estructura familiar que nos protegía y que ahora no existe: hoy los tienes en la residencia y para pagarlo has de trabajar 24 horas… Es absurdo: hay que romper con eso, se desballestan muchas cosas ¿Un discurso conservador?
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Conjugation
Conjugation of desballestar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading
- “desballestar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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