Nominal Forms
Infinitivo:
ventar
Participio:
ventado
Xerundio:
ventando
Cognates
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Indicative
Pretérito pluscuamperfecto
Subxuntivo
Imperfecto (subxuntivo II)
Infinitivo Conxugado
ventar
Verbs conjugated like 'ventar'
abondar,
abortar,
abrochar,
abundar,
abusar,
acampar,
accionar,
aceitar,
acenar,
activar,
adoptar,
adotar,
afectar,
afondar,
agatuñar,
agoirar,
agomar,
agourar,
agromar,
aguentar, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ventar'
aventar,
dentar,
mentar,
sentar,
tentar,
vendar,
ventear,
vetar,
adentar,
alentar,
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ventar (attested since circa 1300 in Galician texts).
Sample Sentences
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por eso andades pillando votos a bandadas como cando preada ventan os corvos; Por eso eres ti do banco donde se xuntan os votos pra trocar as papeletas e facer outros embrollos (that's the reason behind you catching votes at large as when the crows sniff a carcass; because of this, you are of the bench where the ballots are reunited to change the papers and to do other wrongs) [c. 1840, Antonio María de la Iglesia, editor, El idioma Gallego, su antigüedad y vida, A Coruña: Latorre y Martínez Edts, page 180:]
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Mais non podès, porque ò lume,
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por moito que se atafegue,
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logo ò venta quen se achegue,
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anque del non vexa fume (But thou can't, because fire,
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no matter how much you suffocate it,
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it is soon perceived by someone who comes near,
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even it they don't see their smoke) [1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Obras en prosa y verso:]
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