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valefacer

valefacer

Spanish

Verb

valefacer ‎(first-person singular present valefago, first-person singular preterite valefice, past participle valefecho)

  1. To make an IOU
  2. To make a bill of exchange; a negotiable instrument; a promissory note or note payable
  3. To vouch
    1. To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.
    2. To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch.
      • Atterbury
        Le aferieron verecundia al valefacer la verdad de la relación; y despues al acreditarla.
        They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterwards to credit it.
      • Shelley Mary
        Las lágrimas que sufundieron los ojos de mi hermana en cuanto hube mencionado a nuestro amigo, y su erubeciente colorado parecían valefacer la verdad de los rumores que alcanzaran mis oídos.
        The tears that suffused my sister's eyes when I mentioned our friend, and her heightened colour seemed to vouch for the truth of the reports that had reached me.
      Puedo valefacer que el encuentro tomó lugar.
      I can vouch that the match took place.
    3. To back; to support; to confirm.
      • Milton
        Un madeciente horror frígido / A esas tan audaces palabras valefizo él con fazaña audacĺsima.
        Me damp horror chilled / At such bold words vouched with a deed so bold.
    4. To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
      • Blackstone
        Él valeface al inquilino en secuencia, quien valeface sobre el valefacendo común.
        He vouches the tenant in tail, who vouches over the common vouchee.
    5. To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
      • Jonathan Swift
        No le ha él de creer hasta haya el elector de Hanóver de valefacer aquello que sea vero de entre lo que ella ha […] aseverado.
        He will not believe her until the elector of Hanover shall vouch for the truth of what she has […] affirmed.
    6. To call as a witness.
      • Dryden
        Valefagan las silentes estrellas y consciente luna.
        Vouch the silent stars and conscious moon.
    7. To assert; to aver; to declare.
  4. To voucher
    1. To establish the authenticity of; to vouch for.
    2. To provide a vouch for (an expenditure).
    3. To provide (a beneficiary) with a voucher.
  5. (literary) To say farewell

Conjugation

    Conjugation of valefacer (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)edit data
infinitive valefacer
gerund valefaciendo
past participle masculine feminine
singular valefecho valefecha
plural valefechos valefechas
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative yo tú
vos		 él/ella
usted		 nosotros
nosotras		 vosotros
vosotras		 ellos/ellas
ustedes
present valefago valefacestú
valefacésvos 		valeface valefacemos valefacéis valefacen
imperfect valefacía valefacías valefacía valefacíamos valefacíais valefacían
preterite valefice valeficiste valefizo valeficimos valeficisteis valeficieron
future valefaré valefarás valefará valefaremos valefaréis valefarán
conditional valefaría valefarías valefaría valefaríamos valefaríais valefarían
subjunctive yo tú
vos		 él/ella
usted		 nosotros
nosotras		 vosotros
vosotras		 ellos/ellas
ustedes
present valefaga valefagas valefaga valefagamos valefagáis valefagan
imperfect
(ra)		 valeficiera valeficieras valeficiera valeficiéramos valeficierais valeficieran
imperfect
(se)		 valeficiese valeficieses valeficiese valeficiésemos valeficieseis valeficiesen
future valeficiere valeficieres valeficiere valeficiéremos valeficiereis valeficieren
imperative — tú
vos		 usted nosotros
nosotras		 vosotros
vosotras		 ustedes
affirmative valeface, valefaztú
valefacévos 		valefaga valefagamos valefaced valefagan
negative no valefagas no valefaga no valefagamos no valefagáis no valefagan

Other verbs with this conjugation:

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Etymology

Alternatively from Latin valefacere, present active infinitive of valefaciō ‎(“I say farewell”), from valeō ‎(“I am worth”) + faciō ‎(“I make, do”), using the conjugation model of hacer. And from vale ‎(“IOU, voucher”) + hacer ‎(“to make, do”), analogously after the paradigm of abolefacer ‎(“to destroy”), arefacer ‎(“to make arid; to dry (up), wither”), asuefacer ‎(“to accustom, habituate, inure to”), benefacer ‎(“to do good; benefit, bless”), calefacer ‎(“to make calid; warm, heat; rouse, excite”), estupefacer ‎(“to make or become stupid”), malefacer ‎(“to do evil or harm; injure”), madefacer ‎(“to wet, moisten; soak, steep; intoxicate”), molifacer ‎(“to make soft”), patefacer ‎(“to open, throw open”), putrefacer ‎(“to make putrid; putrify, rot”), rubefacer ‎(“to make red or ruddy; redden”) and satisfacer ‎(“to make satiated; satisfy, content”).

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