impender

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin impendere.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pẽˈde(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pẽˈde(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pẽˈde(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pẽˈde(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pẽˈde(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pẽˈde(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pẽˈde(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pẽˈde(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pẽˈdeɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pẽˈdeɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pẽˈde.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: im‧pen‧der

Verb

impender (first-person singular present impendo, first-person singular preterite impendi, past participle impendido)

1. (intransitive) to be impending, imminent, about to happen
2. (intransitive) to be up to, to fall under the responsibility of (someone)

   Synonym: caber

3. (transitive) to require (something)

   Synonyms: requerir, demandar, necessitar, precisar

Further reading

• “impender”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “impender”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “impender”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2025
• “impender”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “impender”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impendere.

Verb

impender (first-person singular present impendo, first-person singular preterite impendí, past participle impendido)

1. to spend or expend

Conjugation

    Conjugation of impender (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			impender
gerund			impendiendo
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		impendido		impendida
		plural		impendidos		impendidas
		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	impendo	impendestú impendésvos	impende	impendemos	impendéis	impenden
	imperfect	impendía	impendías	impendía	impendíamos	impendíais	impendían
	preterite	impendí	impendiste	impendió	impendimos	impendisteis	impendieron
	future	impenderé	impenderás	impenderá	impenderemos	impenderéis	impenderán
	conditional	impendería	impenderías	impendería	impenderíamos	impenderíais	impenderían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	impenda	impendastú impendásvos2	impenda	impendamos	impendáis	impendan
	imperfect (ra)	impendiera	impendieras	impendiera	impendiéramos	impendierais	impendieran
	imperfect (se)	impendiese	impendieses	impendiese	impendiésemos	impendieseis	impendiesen
	future1	impendiere	impendieres	impendiere	impendiéremos	impendiereis	impendieren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		impendetú impendévos	impenda	impendamos	impended	impendan
	negative		no impendas	no impenda	no impendamos	no impendáis	no impendan

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

Further reading

• “impender”, 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