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arrepender
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Portuguese
Etymology
From a- + Old Galician-Portuguese repender, repeender, from Early Medieval Latin repoenitēre, from Latin paenitēre. Suffixation perhaps to avoid confusion with the unrelated Portuguese pender (“hang”).
Compare Galician arrepender, Spanish arrepentirse.
Pronunciation
Verb
arrepender (first-person singular present arrependo, first-person singular preterite arrependi, past participle arrependido)
- (pronominal) to repent (to feel bad about one’s past misdeeds)
- Nunca me arrependerei.
- I shall never repent.
- (pronominal) to regret (to feel bad about about having done something) [with de ‘something’ or de (+ infinitive or personal infinitive) ‘doing someting’]
- Os terroristas se arrependeram do ataque.
- The terrorists regretted the attack.
- Farei vocês se arrependerem de ter nascido.
- I will make you regret having been born.
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Further reading
- “arrepender”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
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