birbar
Appearance
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Alteration of minvar (âto diminishâ).
Verb
[edit]birbar (first-person singular present birbo, first-person singular preterite birbĂ, past participle birbat)
- (transitive) to weed (out)
- Synonym: eixarcolar
- 1978, Alfons CucĂł Giner et al., La qĂźestiĂł agrĂ ria al PaĂs ValenciĂ :
- Fins i tot, s'arriba a prendre solucions drà stiques, com ara deixar de birbar l'arròs...perquè hom considera que els diners que es treuran de la collita no compensen els treballs i costos d'aquesta feina.
- One even ends up taking drastic solutions, such as now giving up on weeding the rice...because one considers that the money which will be made from the harvest doesn't compensate for the labour and costs of this work.
Conjugation
[edit] Central Catalan conjugation of birbar (first conjugation)
| infinitive | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | |||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | |||||||
| plural | |||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nĂłs |
vosaltres vĂłs |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | |||||||
| imperfect | |||||||
| future | |||||||
| preterite | |||||||
| conditional | |||||||
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nĂłs |
vosaltres vĂłs |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | |||||||
| imperfect | |||||||
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vĂłs |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | ||||||
| negative (no) | — | no birbis | no birbi | no birbem | no birbeu | no birbin | |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- âbirbarâ, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- âbirbarâ in Diccionari normatiu valenciĂ , Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), âbirbarâ, in Diccionari catalĂ -valenciĂ -balear (in Catalan)