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contentar
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Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese contentar, from contento (“content; satisfied”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: con‧ten‧tar
Verb
contentar (first-person singular present contento, first-person singular preterite contentei, past participle contentado)
- (transitive) to content; to satisfy (to make content)
- Synonym: satisfazer
Conjugation
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
- “contentar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “contentar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
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Spanish
Pronunciation
Verb
contentar (first-person singular present contento, first-person singular preterite contenté, past participle contentado)
- (transitive) to please
- (reflexive) to make do, settle
Conjugation
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
Related terms
- contentación
- contento
Further reading
- “contentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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