parecer
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese parecer, from Vulgar Latin *pārēscere, from Latin pārēre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]parecer (first-person singular present parezo, first-person singular preterite parecín, past participle parecido)
Conjugation
[edit]1Less recommended.
Further reading
[edit]- “parecer”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
- “parecer” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese parecer, from Vulgar Latin *pārēscere, from Latin pārēre.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: pa‧re‧cer
Verb
[edit]parecer (first-person singular present pareço, first-person singular preterite pareci, past participle parecido)
- (copulative or auxiliary) to seem
- O Jorge parece estar feliz. ― George seems to be happy.
- (pronominal) to resemble [with com ‘someone/something’]
Conjugation
[edit]Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:parecer.
Etymology 2
[edit]Nominalization of Etymology 1.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: pa‧re‧cer
Noun
[edit]parecer m (plural pareceres)
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:parecer.
Further reading
[edit]- “parecer” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pārēscere, from Latin pārēre.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /paɾeˈθeɾ/ [pa.ɾeˈθeɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /paɾeˈseɾ/ [pa.ɾeˈseɾ]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -eɾ
- Syllabification: pa‧re‧cer
Verb
[edit]parecer (first-person singular present parezco, first-person singular preterite parecí, past participle parecido)
- (impersonal) to seem, to see fit
- El caballo parece muerto. ― The horse seems dead.
- Me parece que... ― It seems to me that...
- como mejor le parezca ― as you see fit; as one sees fit
- (pronominal) to believe
- (pronominal) to think
- ¿Qué te parece si vamos al bar?
- What do you think about going to a bar?
- to strike (seem, appear, make an impression)
- Te voy a mandar una cosa que escribí el otro día, para ver que te parece.
- I am going to send you something that I wrote the other day, in order to see how it strikes you.
- ¿Te parece que cambiemos el día para el martes?
- How about we change the day to Tuesday?
- (reflexive) to be like, to take after, to resemble
- to perceive
Conjugation
[edit]These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]parecer m (plural pareceres)
- (archaic) appearance (used generally when a person is pretty)
- (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Genesis 29.17:
- Y los ojos de Lea eran tiernos, pero Rachêl era de lindo semblante y de hermoso parecer.
- Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
- Synonym: apariencia
- (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Genesis 29.17:
- opinion
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “parecer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
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- Galician lemmas
- Galician verbs
- Galician verbs ending in -er
- Galician verbs with c-z alternation
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- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
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- Portuguese 3-syllable words
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- Portuguese copulative verbs
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- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
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- Spanish terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
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- Rhymes:Spanish/eɾ
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