fructificar

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frūctificāre. Compare Ladino frochiguar, fruchiguar, Old Spanish fruchiguar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɾuɡtifiˈkaɾ/ [fɾuɣ̞.t̪i.fiˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fruc‧ti‧fi‧car

Verb

fructificar (first-person singular present fructifico, first-person singular preterite fructifiqué, past participle fructificado)

1. to fructify, to bear fruit

Conjugation

    Conjugation of fructificar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			fructificar
gerund			fructificando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		fructificado		fructificada
		plural		fructificados		fructificadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	fructifico	fructificastú fructificásvos	fructifica	fructificamos	fructificáis	fructifican
	imperfect	fructificaba	fructificabas	fructificaba	fructificábamos	fructificabais	fructificaban
	preterite	fructifiqué	fructificaste	fructificó	fructificamos	fructificasteis	fructificaron
	future	fructificaré	fructificarás	fructificará	fructificaremos	fructificaréis	fructificarán
	conditional	fructificaría	fructificarías	fructificaría	fructificaríamos	fructificaríais	fructificarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	fructifique	fructifiquestú fructifiquésvos2	fructifique	fructifiquemos	fructifiquéis	fructifiquen
	imperfect (ra)	fructificara	fructificaras	fructificara	fructificáramos	fructificarais	fructificaran
	imperfect (se)	fructificase	fructificases	fructificase	fructificásemos	fructificaseis	fructificasen
	future1	fructificare	fructificares	fructificare	fructificáremos	fructificareis	fructificaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		fructificatú fructificávos	fructifique	fructifiquemos	fructificad	fructifiquen
	negative		no fructifiques	no fructifique	no fructifiquemos	no fructifiquéis	no fructifiquen

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

Related terms

• fructificación

Further reading

• “fructificar”, 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