rechazar
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French rechacier, from chacier (modern chasser), from Vulgar Latin *captiāre, whence also Spanish cazar. Compare Portuguese rechaçar.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /ret͡ʃaˈθaɾ/ [re.t͡ʃaˈθaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ret͡ʃaˈsaɾ/ [re.t͡ʃaˈsaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: re‧cha‧zar
Verb
[edit]rechazar (first-person singular present rechazo, first-person singular preterite rechacé, past participle rechazado)
- to reject, to turn down, to turn away, to refuse, to dismiss, to shun, to decline
- 2019 December 5, “Greta Thunberg abandona Lisboa en tren rumbo a Madrid”, in La Vanguardia[1]:
- Thunberg rechaza el avión por la emisión de gases contaminantes y, tras descartar un vehículo eléctrico y recibir ofertas tan llamativas como la posibilidad de cubrir los 600 kilómetros que separan las capitales ibéricas en burro, se ha inclinado por el tren.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to decline, to deny (e.g. a credit card declining, an appeal being denied)
- to repel, to ward off
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of rechazar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of rechazar (c-z alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “rechazar”, 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
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