bonfacar

Ido

Alternative forms

• bon-facar, bonafacar, bona-facar

Etymology

From bona (“good”) +‎ facar (“to make, do”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔn.faˈt͡sar/

Verb

bonfacar (present bonfacas, past bonfacis, future bonfacos, conditional bonfacus, imperative bonfacez)

1. (intransitive) to do good, be a benefactor
   • 1911, La Deligitaro, Progreso - Volume 3, page 375:

     Stephen Girard; biografio di Franco, qua multe bonfacis urbo Philadelphia

     Stephen Girard; biography of a Frenchman, who made the city of Philadelphia a lot of good

2. (transitive) to do good to (someone)
   • 1908, Johann Baptiste Pinth, Jesu Kristo: sa biografio segun la quar evangelyi, page 36:

     Lor via rekompenso esos granda, e vi esos infanti di la max alta Sinioro, qua bonfacas anke la ne-dankozi e malboni

     Then your reward will be hugh, and you will be children of the highest lord, who also does good to the ungrateful and wicked ones

Conjugation

Conjugation of bonfacar

		present		past		future
infinitive		bonfacar		bonfacir		bonfacor
tense		bonfacas		bonfacis		bonfacos
conditional		bonfacus		—		—
imperative		bonfacez		—		—
adjective active participle		bonfacanta		bonfacinta		bonfaconta
adverbial active participle		bonfacante		bonfacinte		bonfaconte
nominal active participle	singular	bonfacanto		bonfacinto		bonfaconto
	plural	bonfacanti		bonfacinti		bonfaconti
adjective passive participle		bonfacata		bonfacita		bonfacota
adverbial passive participle		bonfacate		bonfacite		bonfacote
nominal passive participle	singular	bonfacato		bonfacito		bonfacoto
	plural	bonfacati		bonfaciti		bonfacoti

Derived terms

• bonfaco (“benefaction, good offices, benefit, favor”)