yermar

Spanish

Etymology

From yermo +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝeɾˈmaɾ/ [ɟ͡ʝeɾˈmaɾ]

• IPA^(key): /ʝeɾˈmaɾ/ [ɟ͡ʝeɾˈmaɾ] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /ʃeɾˈmaɾ/ [ʃeɾˈmaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ʒeɾˈmaɾ/ [ʒeɾˈmaɾ] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: yer‧mar

Verb

yermar (first-person singular present yermo, first-person singular preterite yermé, past participle yermado)

1. (obsolete) to lay waste
2. (obsolete) to leave fallow, to abandon as wasteland

Conjugation

    Conjugation of yermar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			yermar
gerund			yermando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		yermado		yermada
		plural		yermados		yermadas
		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	yermo	yermastú yermásvos	yerma	yermamos	yermáis	yerman
	imperfect	yermaba	yermabas	yermaba	yermábamos	yermabais	yermaban
	preterite	yermé	yermaste	yermó	yermamos	yermasteis	yermaron
	future	yermaré	yermarás	yermará	yermaremos	yermaréis	yermarán
	conditional	yermaría	yermarías	yermaría	yermaríamos	yermaríais	yermarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	yerme	yermestú yermésvos2	yerme	yermemos	yerméis	yermen
	imperfect (ra)	yermara	yermaras	yermara	yermáramos	yermarais	yermaran
	imperfect (se)	yermase	yermases	yermase	yermásemos	yermaseis	yermasen
	future1	yermare	yermares	yermare	yermáremos	yermareis	yermaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		yermatú yermávos	yerme	yermemos	yermad	yermen
	negative		no yermes	no yerme	no yermemos	no yerméis	no yermen

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

Further reading

• “yermar”, 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