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renegar
renegar
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Verb
renegar (first-person singular present indicative renego, past participle renegado)
- to renounce an ideology
- to disown (to refuse to acknowledge as one’s own)
- to renege (to break a promise or commitment)
- to reject or detest
Conjugation
Conjugation of the Portuguese -ar verb renegar
Spanish
Etymology
Medieval Latin renegare, from Latin re- + negare
Verb
renegar (first-person singular present reniego, first-person singular preterite renegué, past participle renegado)
- to complain
- to deny vigorously
- to detest, abhor
- to apostatize
- to swear, blaspheme
Conjugation
- Rule: e becomes ie in stressed syllables; g becomes a gu before e.
Other verbs with this conjugation:
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