atisbar
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown, perhaps related to avistar.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]atisbar (first-person singular present atisbo, first-person singular preterite atisbé, past participle atisbado)
- to spy on
- to watch, observe
- to glimpse, see confusedly
- Synonyms: entrever, vislumbrar
- 2022 July 12, Victoria Torres Benayas, “Las claves de una ola de calor que desafía todos los récords de intensidad, extensión y duración”, in El País[1]:
- El domingo alcanzó al resto de España y tal va a ser su persistencia que ni siquiera se atisba un final claro.
- On Sunday it reached the rest of the Spain and it'll be so persistent that you can barely glimpse its end.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of atisbar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | |||||||
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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 | vos |
tú||||||
imperfect | |||||||
preterite | |||||||
future | |||||||
conditional | |||||||
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | vos2 |
tú||||||
imperfect (ra) |
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imperfect (se) |
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future1 | |||||||
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | vos |
tú||||||
negative | no atisbes | no atisbe | no atisbemos | no atisbéis | no atisben |
Selected combined forms of atisbar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
singular | plural | ||||||
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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 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
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “atisbar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28