obligar

obligar

1. to oblige; to force

Borrowed from Latin obligāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [u.βliˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [o.bliˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [o.bliˈɣaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

obligar (first-person singular present obligo, first-person singular preterite obliguí, past participle obligat)

1. to oblige, force, obligate

Borrowed from Latin obligāre. Cognate with English oblige and obligate.

• IPA^(key): /obliˈɡaɾ/ [o.β̞liˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: o‧bli‧gar

obligar (first-person singular present obligo, first-person singular preterite obligué, past participle obligado)

1. to force, to compel, to make (someone do something)

   Por favor no me obligues a hacer esto.

   Please don't make me do this.

2. to oblige, to obligate, to bind

   La Carta de las Naciones Unidas obliga a todos los miembros de la organización a respetar el principio de la no discriminación.

   The Charter of the United Nations binds all the members of the organization to respect the principle of non-discrimination.

3. (reflexive, law) to be bound, to be obliged, to be obligated
4. (reflexive) to force oneself or make oneself (do something)
5. (reflexive) to commit oneself

• “obligar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Latin obligāre (compare Italian obbligare), present active infinitive of obligō.

obligar

1. (transitive) to oblige, compel

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.