encaminar
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See also: encamiñar
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [əŋ.kə.miˈna]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [eŋ.ka.miˈnaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Northwestern) [eŋ.ka.miˈna]
- Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
Verb
[edit]encaminar (first-person singular present encamino, first-person singular preterite encaminí, past participle encaminat)
- (transitive) to direct, to guide
- (transitive, figurative) to put on the right track
- (reflexive) to head towards
Conjugation
[edit] Central Catalan conjugation of encaminar (first conjugation)
Further reading
[edit]- “encaminar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “encaminar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “encaminar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “encaminar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]encaminar (first-person singular present encamino, first-person singular preterite encaminé, past participle encaminado)
- (transitive) to direct, to guide
- (transitive, figurative) to put on the right track
- 1888, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Ismael[1], Buenos Aires: La Tribuna Nacional:
- Este hombre de acción encaminaba los desertores y los gauchos errantes a aquella guarida; hasta que llegó a formar una partida gruesa, que más adelante se complementó con algunos vecinos sublevados en su distrito, para iniciar en Asencio con Pedro José Viera la gloriosa campaña del año XI.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (reflexive) to be on the right track
- (reflexive) to head towards
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of encaminar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of encaminar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “encaminar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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