prospectar

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• prospetar (Portugal)

Verb

prospectar (first-person singular present prospecto, first-person singular preterite prospectei, past participle prospectado) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling, superseded in European Portuguese)

1. (geology, mining) to prospect (to determine which minerals or metals are present in a location)
2. (by extension) to prospect (to evaluate the potentials of something)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of prospectar (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	prospectar
Personal	prospectar	prospectares	prospectar	prospectarmos	prospectardes	prospectarem
Gerund
	prospectando
Past participle
Masculine	prospectado			prospectados
Feminine	prospectada			prospectadas
Indicative
Present	prospecto	prospectas	prospecta	prospectamos	prospectais	prospectam
Imperfect	prospectava	prospectavas	prospectava	prospectávamos	prospectáveis	prospectavam
Preterite	prospectei	prospectaste	prospectou	prospectamos1, prospectámos2	prospectastes	prospectaram
Pluperfect	prospectara	prospectaras	prospectara	prospectáramos	prospectáreis	prospectaram
Future	prospectarei	prospectarás	prospectará	prospectaremos	prospectareis	prospectarão
Conditional	prospectaria	prospectarias	prospectaria	prospectaríamos	prospectaríeis	prospectariam
Subjunctive
Present	prospecte	prospectes	prospecte	prospectemos	prospecteis	prospectem
Imperfect	prospectasse	prospectasses	prospectasse	prospectássemos	prospectásseis	prospectassem
Future	prospectar	prospectares	prospectar	prospectarmos	prospectardes	prospectarem
Imperative
Affirmative		prospecta	prospecte	prospectemos	prospectai	prospectem
Negative (não)		não prospectes	não prospecte	não prospectemos	não prospecteis	não prospectem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Further reading

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾospeɡˈtaɾ/ [pɾos.peɣ̞ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pros‧pec‧tar

Verb

prospectar (first-person singular present prospecto, first-person singular preterite prospecté, past participle prospectado)

1. to prospect

Conjugation

    Conjugation of prospectar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			prospectar
gerund			prospectando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		prospectado		prospectada
		plural		prospectados		prospectadas
		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	prospecto	prospectastú prospectásvos	prospecta	prospectamos	prospectáis	prospectan
	imperfect	prospectaba	prospectabas	prospectaba	prospectábamos	prospectabais	prospectaban
	preterite	prospecté	prospectaste	prospectó	prospectamos	prospectasteis	prospectaron
	future	prospectaré	prospectarás	prospectará	prospectaremos	prospectaréis	prospectarán
	conditional	prospectaría	prospectarías	prospectaría	prospectaríamos	prospectaríais	prospectarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	prospecte	prospectestú prospectésvos2	prospecte	prospectemos	prospectéis	prospecten
	imperfect (ra)	prospectara	prospectaras	prospectara	prospectáramos	prospectarais	prospectaran
	imperfect (se)	prospectase	prospectases	prospectase	prospectásemos	prospectaseis	prospectasen
	future1	prospectare	prospectares	prospectare	prospectáremos	prospectareis	prospectaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		prospectatú prospectávos	prospecte	prospectemos	prospectad	prospecten
	negative		no prospectes	no prospecte	no prospectemos	no prospectéis	no prospecten

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

Further reading

• “prospectar”, 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