minguar

Portuguese

Alternative forms

mingar

Etymology

From Old Portuguese minguar, from Vulgar Latin *minuāre, from Latin minuĕre, present active infinitive of minuō (“I make smaller, diminish”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”).

Cognate with Galician minguar, Spanish menguar and Catalan minvar.

Pronunciation

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /mĩ.ˈɡwaɾ/, /mĩ.ˈɡaɾ/
Hyphenation: min‧gu‧ar

Verb

minguar (first-person singular present indicative minguo, past participle minguado)

to wane (lunar phase)
to diminish

Conjugation

Conjugation of the Portuguese -ar verb minguar

	Singular			Plural
Notes:^[edit] This is a regular verb of the -ar group. An acute accent is added in the stem of a few conjugated forms. An obsolete treatment is to add a diaresis when the letter u is pronounced. Verbs with this conjugation include: aguar, apropinquar, desaguar, enxaguar, minguar.
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	minguar
Personal	minguar	minguares	minguar	minguarmos	minguardes	minguarem
Gerund
	minguando
Past participle
Masculine	minguado			minguados
Feminine	minguada			minguadas
Indicative
Present	mínguo	mínguas	míngua	minguamos	minguais	mínguam
Imperfect	minguava	minguavas	minguava	minguávamos	minguáveis	minguavam
Preterite	minguei Obsolete: mingüei	minguaste	minguou	minguamos minguámos	minguastes	minguaram
Pluperfect	minguara	minguaras	minguara	minguáramos	minguáreis	minguaram
Future	minguarei	minguarás	minguará	minguaremos	minguareis	minguarão
Conditional
	minguaria	minguarias	minguaria	minguaríamos	minguaríeis	minguariam
Subjunctive
Present	míngue Obsolete: míngüe	míngues Obsolete: míngües	míngue Obsolete: míngüe	minguemos Obsolete: mingüemos	mingueis Obsolete: mingüeis	mínguem Obsolete: míngüem
Imperfect	minguasse	minguasses	minguasse	minguássemos	minguásseis	minguassem
Future	minguar	minguares	minguar	minguarmos	minguardes	minguarem
Imperative
Affirmative	-	míngua	míngue Obsolete: míngüe	minguemos Obsolete: mingüemos	minguai	mínguem Obsolete: míngüem
Negative (não)	-	míngues Obsolete: míngües	míngue Obsolete: míngüe	minguemos Obsolete: mingüemos	mingueis Obsolete: mingüeis	mínguem Obsolete: míngüem

Synonyms

(diminish): diminuir

Antonyms

(wane): crescer

Derived terms

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