nitrar

Portuguese

Etymology

From nitro (“nitro”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /niˈtɾa(ʁ)/ [niˈtɾa(h)]

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

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /niˈtɾaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /niˈtɾaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /niˈtɾa.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: ni‧trar

Verb

nitrar (first-person singular present nitro, first-person singular preterite nitrei, past participle nitrado)

1. (chemistry) to nitrate

Conjugation

    Conjugation of nitrar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	nitrar
Personal	nitrar	nitrares	nitrar	nitrarmos	nitrardes	nitrarem
Gerund
	nitrando
Past participle
Masculine	nitrado			nitrados
Feminine	nitrada			nitradas
Indicative
Present	nitro	nitras	nitra	nitramos	nitrais	nitram
Imperfect	nitrava	nitravas	nitrava	nitrávamos	nitráveis	nitravam
Preterite	nitrei	nitraste	nitrou	nitramos1, nitrámos2	nitrastes	nitraram
Pluperfect	nitrara	nitraras	nitrara	nitráramos	nitráreis	nitraram
Future	nitrarei	nitrarás	nitrará	nitraremos	nitrareis	nitrarão
Conditional	nitraria	nitrarias	nitraria	nitraríamos	nitraríeis	nitrariam
Subjunctive
Present	nitre	nitres	nitre	nitremos	nitreis	nitrem
Imperfect	nitrasse	nitrasses	nitrasse	nitrássemos	nitrásseis	nitrassem
Future	nitrar	nitrares	nitrar	nitrarmos	nitrardes	nitrarem
Imperative
Affirmative		nitra	nitre	nitremos	nitrai	nitrem
Negative (não)		não nitres	não nitre	não nitremos	não nitreis	não nitrem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Further reading

• “nitrar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “nitrar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Verb

nitrar (first-person singular present nitro, first-person singular preterite nitré, past participle nitrado)

1. to nitrate
   • 2018 August 31, “Policía Nacional de Nicaragua presenta a fundador del Ejército como “dirigente terrorista””, in El Nuevo Diario‎, archived from the original on 30 January 2022:

     “Entre las pruebas que la institución policial recolectó para demostrar la culpabilidad de los detenidos destacan: denuncia de los hechos criminales, inspección de las escenas del crimen, peritaje químico de criminalística con resultados positivos de presencia de productos nitrados en las dorsales de Luis Tomás Fonseca Martínez y Carlos Brenes, declaraciones de testigos y resultados del dictamen médico legal practicados a las víctimas”, justificó la Policía Nacional.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of nitrar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			nitrar
gerund			nitrando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		nitrado		nitrada
		plural		nitrados		nitradas
		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	nitro	nitrastú nitrásvos	nitra	nitramos	nitráis	nitran
	imperfect	nitraba	nitrabas	nitraba	nitrábamos	nitrabais	nitraban
	preterite	nitré	nitraste	nitró	nitramos	nitrasteis	nitraron
	future	nitraré	nitrarás	nitrará	nitraremos	nitraréis	nitrarán
	conditional	nitraría	nitrarías	nitraría	nitraríamos	nitraríais	nitrarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	nitre	nitrestú nitrésvos2	nitre	nitremos	nitréis	nitren
	imperfect (ra)	nitrara	nitraras	nitrara	nitráramos	nitrarais	nitraran
	imperfect (se)	nitrase	nitrases	nitrase	nitrásemos	nitraseis	nitrasen
	future1	nitrare	nitrares	nitrare	nitráremos	nitrareis	nitraren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		nitratú nitrávos	nitre	nitremos	nitrad	nitren
	negative		no nitres	no nitre	no nitremos	no nitréis	no nitren

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

    Selected combined forms of nitrar

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
with infinitive nitrar	dative	nitrarme	nitrarte	nitrarle, nitrarse	nitrarnos	nitraros	nitrarles, nitrarse
	accusative	nitrarme	nitrarte	nitrarlo, nitrarla, nitrarse	nitrarnos	nitraros	nitrarlos, nitrarlas, nitrarse
with gerund nitrando	dative	nitrándome	nitrándote	nitrándole, nitrándose	nitrándonos	nitrándoos	nitrándoles, nitrándose
	accusative	nitrándome	nitrándote	nitrándolo, nitrándola, nitrándose	nitrándonos	nitrándoos	nitrándolos, nitrándolas, nitrándose
with informal second-person singular tuteo imperative nitra	dative	nítrame	nítrate	nítrale	nítranos	not used	nítrales
	accusative	nítrame	nítrate	nítralo, nítrala	nítranos	not used	nítralos, nítralas
with informal second-person singular voseo imperative nitrá	dative	nitrame	nitrate	nitrale	nitranos	not used	nitrales
	accusative	nitrame	nitrate	nitralo, nitrala	nitranos	not used	nitralos, nitralas
with formal second-person singular imperative nitre	dative	nítreme	not used	nítrele, nítrese	nítrenos	not used	nítreles
	accusative	nítreme	not used	nítrelo, nítrela, nítrese	nítrenos	not used	nítrelos, nítrelas
with first-person plural imperative nitremos	dative	not used	nitrémoste	nitrémosle	nitrémonos	nitrémoos	nitrémosles
	accusative	not used	nitrémoste	nitrémoslo, nitrémosla	nitrémonos	nitrémoos	nitrémoslos, nitrémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative nitrad	dative	nitradme	not used	nitradle	nitradnos	nitraos	nitradles
	accusative	nitradme	not used	nitradlo, nitradla	nitradnos	nitraos	nitradlos, nitradlas
with formal second-person plural imperative nitren	dative	nítrenme	not used	nítrenle	nítrennos	not used	nítrenles, nítrense
	accusative	nítrenme	not used	nítrenlo, nítrenla	nítrennos	not used	nítrenlos, nítrenlas, nítrense

Further reading

• “nitrar”, 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