sotjar

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Etymology

Borrowed from Old French soschier, from Latin suspicārī.

Pronunciation

Verb

sotjar (first-person singular present sotjo, first-person singular preterite sotgí, past participle sotjat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /o/

  1. (transitive) to spy on, to watch covertly
    Synonyms: espiar, vetllar, observar
    • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 5, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
      No feia ni mitja hora que sotjava quan va sortir al balcó.
      I had not even been spying for half an hour when he came out on the balcony.

Conjugation
    Conjugation of sotjar (first conjugation, j-g alternation)
infinitive sotjar
gerund sotjant
past participle masculine feminine
singular sotjat sotjada
plural sotjats sotjades
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu ell/ella
vostè		 nosaltres
nós		 vosaltres
vós		 ells/elles
vostès
present sotjo sotges sotja sotgem sotgeu sotgen
imperfect sotjava sotjaves sotjava sotjàvem sotjàveu sotjaven
future sotjaré sotjaràs sotjarà sotjarem sotjareu sotjaran
preterite sotgí sotjares sotjà sotjàrem sotjàreu sotjaren
conditional sotjaria sotjaries sotjaria sotjaríem sotjaríeu sotjarien
subjunctive jo tu ell/ella
vostè		 nosaltres
nós		 vosaltres
vós		 ells/elles
vostès
present sotgi sotgis sotgi sotgem sotgeu sotgin
imperfect sotgés sotgessis sotgés sotgéssim sotgéssiu sotgessin
imperative — tu vostè nosaltres vosaltres
vós		 vostès
affirmative — sotja sotgi sotgem sotgeu sotgin
negative (no) — no sotgis no sotgi no sotgem no sotgeu no sotgin

Derived terms
  • sotjador

Further reading
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