embasar

Portuguese

Etymology

From em- +‎ base (“base; basis”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈza(ʁ)/ [ẽ.baˈza(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈza(ʁ)/ [ĩ.baˈza(h)]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈza(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈza(ɾ)/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈza(ʁ)/ [ẽ.baˈza(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈza(ʁ)/ [ĩ.baˈza(χ)]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈza(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈza(ɻ)/
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽ.bɐˈzaɾ/
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽ.bɐˈza.ɾi/

  • Hyphenation: em‧ba‧sar

Verb

embasar (first-person singular present embaso, first-person singular preterite embasei, past participle embasado)

  1. (transitive, architecture) to build (a building’s) foundation
  2. (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking em) to base on (to use something as a basis for (an opinion, idea or procedure))
    Ele embasou a teoria nas suas observações. ― He based the theory on his observations.

Conjugation
    Conjugation of embasar (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 embasar
Personal embasar embasares embasar embasarmos embasardes embasarem
Gerund
embasando
Past participle
Masculine embasado embasados
Feminine embasada embasadas
Indicative
Present embaso embasas embasa embasamos embasais embasam
Imperfect embasava embasavas embasava embasávamos embasáveis embasavam
Preterite embasei embasaste embasou embasamos1, embasámos2 embasastes embasaram
Pluperfect embasara embasaras embasara embasáramos embasáreis embasaram
Future embasarei embasarás embasará embasaremos embasareis embasarão
Conditional embasaria embasarias embasaria embasaríamos embasaríeis embasariam
Subjunctive
Present embase embases embase embasemos embaseis embasem
Imperfect embasasse embasasses embasasse embasássemos embasásseis embasassem
Future embasar embasares embasar embasarmos embasardes embasarem
Imperative
Affirmative embasa embase embasemos embasai embasem
Negative (não) não embases não embase não embasemos não embaseis não embasem

1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.

Derived terms

Spanish

Verb

embasar

  1. only used in se ... embasar, syntactic variant of embasarse
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