porfiar

Portuguese

Etymology

From porfia + -ar.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: por‧fi‧ar

Verb

porfiar (first-person singular present indicative porfio, past participle porfiado)

  1. (intransitive) to dispute
    Synonym: disputar
  2. (intransitive, transitive) to insist, persist
    Synonyms: insistir, teimar

Conjugation

Derived terms


Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /porˈfjaɾ/

Verb

porfiar (first-person singular present porfío, first-person singular preterite porfié, past participle porfiado)

  1. to insist, persist
  2. to argue

Conjugation

  • Rule: stressed í in certain conjugations; monosyllabic forms do not have a written accent in certain conjugations.
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