ausentar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.zẽˈta(ʁ)/ [aʊ̯.zẽˈta(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.zẽˈta(ʁ)/ [aʊ̯.zẽˈta(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /aw.zẽˈta(ɾ)/ [aʊ̯.zẽˈta(ɾ)]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aw.zẽˈta(ʁ)/ [aʊ̯.zẽˈta(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.zẽˈta(ɻ)/ [aʊ̯.zẽˈta(ɻ)]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /aw.zẽˈtaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /aw.zẽˈtaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /aw.zẽˈta.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: au‧sen‧tar

Verb

ausentar (first-person singular present ausento, first-person singular preterite ausentei, past participle ausentado)

1. to absent (to withhold from being present)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of ausentar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	ausentar
Personal	ausentar	ausentares	ausentar	ausentarmos	ausentardes	ausentarem
Gerund
	ausentando
Past participle
Masculine	ausentado			ausentados
Feminine	ausentada			ausentadas
Indicative
Present	ausento	ausentas	ausenta	ausentamos	ausentais	ausentam
Imperfect	ausentava	ausentavas	ausentava	ausentávamos	ausentáveis	ausentavam
Preterite	ausentei	ausentaste	ausentou	ausentamos1, ausentámos2	ausentastes	ausentaram
Pluperfect	ausentara	ausentaras	ausentara	ausentáramos	ausentáreis	ausentaram
Future	ausentarei	ausentarás	ausentará	ausentaremos	ausentareis	ausentarão
Conditional	ausentaria	ausentarias	ausentaria	ausentaríamos	ausentaríeis	ausentariam
Subjunctive
Present	ausente	ausentes	ausente	ausentemos	ausenteis	ausentem
Imperfect	ausentasse	ausentasses	ausentasse	ausentássemos	ausentásseis	ausentassem
Future	ausentar	ausentares	ausentar	ausentarmos	ausentardes	ausentarem
Imperative
Affirmative		ausenta	ausente	ausentemos	ausentai	ausentem
Negative (não)		não ausentes	não ausente	não ausentemos	não ausenteis	não ausentem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Spanish

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin absentāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ausenˈtaɾ/ [au̯.sẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: au‧sen‧tar

Verb

ausentar (first-person singular present ausento, first-person singular preterite ausenté, past participle ausentado)

1. to send away
2. (reflexive) to absent oneself

Conjugation

    Conjugation of ausentar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			ausentar
gerund			ausentando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		ausentado		ausentada
		plural		ausentados		ausentadas
		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	ausento	ausentastú ausentásvos	ausenta	ausentamos	ausentáis	ausentan
	imperfect	ausentaba	ausentabas	ausentaba	ausentábamos	ausentabais	ausentaban
	preterite	ausenté	ausentaste	ausentó	ausentamos	ausentasteis	ausentaron
	future	ausentaré	ausentarás	ausentará	ausentaremos	ausentaréis	ausentarán
	conditional	ausentaría	ausentarías	ausentaría	ausentaríamos	ausentaríais	ausentarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	ausente	ausentestú ausentésvos2	ausente	ausentemos	ausentéis	ausenten
	imperfect (ra)	ausentara	ausentaras	ausentara	ausentáramos	ausentarais	ausentaran
	imperfect (se)	ausentase	ausentases	ausentase	ausentásemos	ausentaseis	ausentasen
	future1	ausentare	ausentares	ausentare	ausentáremos	ausentareis	ausentaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		ausentatú ausentávos	ausente	ausentemos	ausentad	ausenten
	negative		no ausentes	no ausente	no ausentemos	no ausentéis	no ausenten

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

    Selected combined forms of ausentar

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
with infinitive ausentar
	dative	ausentarme	ausentarte	ausentarle, ausentarse	ausentarnos	ausentaros	ausentarles, ausentarse
	accusative	ausentarme	ausentarte	ausentarlo, ausentarla, ausentarse	ausentarnos	ausentaros	ausentarlos, ausentarlas, ausentarse
with gerund ausentando
	dative	ausentándome	ausentándote	ausentándole, ausentándose	ausentándonos	ausentándoos	ausentándoles, ausentándose
	accusative	ausentándome	ausentándote	ausentándolo, ausentándola, ausentándose	ausentándonos	ausentándoos	ausentándolos, ausentándolas, ausentándose
with informal second-person singular tú imperative ausenta
	dative	auséntame	auséntate	auséntale	auséntanos	not used	auséntales
	accusative	auséntame	auséntate	auséntalo, auséntala	auséntanos	not used	auséntalos, auséntalas
with informal second-person singular vos imperative ausentá
	dative	ausentame	ausentate	ausentale	ausentanos	not used	ausentales
	accusative	ausentame	ausentate	ausentalo, ausentala	ausentanos	not used	ausentalos, ausentalas
with formal second-person singular imperative ausente
	dative	ausénteme	not used	auséntele, auséntese	auséntenos	not used	ausénteles
	accusative	ausénteme	not used	auséntelo, auséntela, auséntese	auséntenos	not used	auséntelos, auséntelas
with first-person plural imperative ausentemos
	dative	not used	ausentémoste	ausentémosle	ausentémonos	ausentémoos	ausentémosles
	accusative	not used	ausentémoste	ausentémoslo, ausentémosla	ausentémonos	ausentémoos	ausentémoslos, ausentémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative ausentad
	dative	ausentadme	not used	ausentadle	ausentadnos	ausentaos	ausentadles
	accusative	ausentadme	not used	ausentadlo, ausentadla	ausentadnos	ausentaos	ausentadlos, ausentadlas
with formal second-person plural imperative ausenten
	dative	auséntenme	not used	auséntenle	auséntennos	not used	auséntenles, auséntense
	accusative	auséntenme	not used	auséntenlo, auséntenla	auséntennos	not used	auséntenlos, auséntenlas, auséntense

Derived terms

• ausentarse

 

Further reading

• “ausentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28