impender
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin impendere.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.pẽˈde(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pẽˈde(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ĩ.pẽˈde(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ĩ.pẽˈde(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pẽˈde(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /ĩ.pẽˈde(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.pẽˈdeɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.pẽˈde.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: im‧pen‧der
Verb
impender (third-person only, third-person singular present impende, third-person singular preterite impendeu, past participle impendido)
- (intransitive) to be impending, imminent, about to happen
- (intransitive) to be up to, to fall under the responsibility of (someone)
- (transitive) to require (someone's) action or attention
Conjugation
Conjugation of impender (third-person only) (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 | impender | |||||
| Personal | — | — | impender | — | — | impenderem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| impendendo | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | impendido | impendidos | ||||
| Feminine | impendida | impendidas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | — | — | impende | — | — | impendem |
| Imperfect | — | — | impendia | — | — | impendiam |
| Preterite | — | — | impendeu | — | — | impenderam |
| Pluperfect | — | — | impendera | — | — | impenderam |
| Future | — | — | impenderá | — | — | impenderão |
| Conditional | — | — | impenderia | — | — | impenderiam |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | — | — | impenda | — | — | impendam |
| Imperfect | — | — | impendesse | — | — | impendessem |
| Future | — | — | impender | — | — | impenderem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Negative (não) | — | — | — | — | — | |
Further reading
- “impender”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
- “impender”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “impender”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
- “impender”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
- “impender”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin impendere.
Verb
impender (first-person singular present impendo, first-person singular preterite impendí, past participle impendido)
Conjugation
Conjugation of impender (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading
- “impender”, 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