cair
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English cairen, kayren, from Old Norse keyra (“to whip, lash, fling, toss, prick on, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *kaurijaną (“tu turn, sweep”). Cognate with Icelandic keyra (“to run, drive, urge”), Swedish köra (“to drive, go, run”), Danish køre (“to drive”), Norwegian Bokmål kjøre (“to drive”), Norwegian Nynorsk køyra (“to drive”), Old English ċierran (“to turn, change, go, come”). More at char.
Verb
editcair (third-person singular simple present cairs, present participle cairing, simple past and past participle caired)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go.
- (transitive, obsolete) To carry.
- (transitive, dialectal) To toss backwards and forwards; mix up; overhandle; stir about.
Etymology 2
editNoun
editcair (plural cairs)
- Alternative form of caer (“Welsh fortress”)
Anagrams
editIndonesian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editcair
- liquid: flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
- Synonym: likuid
- thin: of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- (figurative) fluid: convertible into cash.
- (figurative) leaked: of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press.
- Synonym: bocor
- (figurative) weak
- Synonym: lemah
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “cair” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Malay
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editcair (Jawi spelling چاءير)
- liquid: flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
- thin: of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Antonym: kental
- (figurative) fluid: convertible into cash.
- (figurative) leaked: of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press.
- Synonym: bocor
- (figurative) weak
- Synonym: lemah
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “cair” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Manx
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish cóir, from Old Irish coaïr, cóir.
Adjective
editcair
Noun
editcair f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
Derived terms
editMutation
editManx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cair | chair | gair |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Portuguese
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese caer, from Late Latin cadēre, from Latin cadĕre, from Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱad- (“to fall”). Cognate with Galician caer and Spanish caer.
Pronunciation
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Verb
editcair (first-person singular present caio, first-person singular preterite caí, past participle caído) (intransitive)
- to fall; to fall down; to drop
- A maçã caiu. ― The apple fell.
- to fall (to fall so it is no longer attached to or on top of something) [with de ‘from’]
- O livro caiu da mesa. ― The book fell from the table.
- A maçã caiu do galho. ― The apple fell from the branch.
- (figurative) to fall; to collapse (to be overthrown, defeated or annulled)
- O novo governo logo cairá. ― The new government will fall soon.
- to suit (to be appropriate or suitable), to be fitting [with bem ‘well’ or mal ‘badly’, along with com or em ‘someone’]
- Um vestido preto cairia bem nela. ― A black dress would suit her well.
- Um vinhozinho cai bem. ― Some wine would be nice.
- to go down (of food) (to be eaten with or without causing indigestion) [with bem ‘well’ or mal ‘badly’]
- Essa pizza podre me caiu mal. ― This rotten pizza didn’t go down well.
- to fall, to decrease (to lower in value or quantity)
- Espero que o preço dos livros caia. ― I hope that the price of the books falls.
- to get disconnected, to be interrupted (of a call or connection)
- Caiu a ligação. ― The connection dropped.
- (euphemistic) to fall (to die in battle)
- Muitos dos nossos soldados caíram naquela guerra. ― Many of our soldiers fell in that war.
- to be present (of a subject or question) [with em ‘in a test’]
- Caiu uma pergunta sobre a revolução. ― There was a question about the revolution.
- Eu não tinha estudado nada do que caiu na prova. ― I hadn’t studied anything that was in the test.
- to be available (of money) [with em ‘in a bank account’]
- Meu salário já caiu na minha conta bancária. ― My salary is already available in my bank account.
Conjugation
editSingular | Plural | |||||
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First-person (eu) |
Second-person (tu) |
Third-person (ele / ela / você) |
First-person (nós) |
Second-person (vós) |
Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
Infinitive | ||||||
Impersonal | cair | |||||
Personal | cair | caíres | cair | cairmos | cairdes | caírem |
Gerund | ||||||
caindo | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | caído | caídos | ||||
Feminine | caída | caídas | ||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | caio | cais | cai | caímos | caís | caem |
Imperfect | caía | caías | caía | caíamos | caíeis | caíam |
Preterite | caí | caíste | caiu | caímos | caístes | caíram |
Pluperfect | caíra | caíras | caíra | caíramos | caíreis | caíram |
Future | cairei | cairás | cairá | cairemos | caireis | cairão |
Conditional | cairia | cairias | cairia | cairíamos | cairíeis | cairiam |
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | caia | caias | caia | caiamos | caiais | caiam |
Imperfect | caísse | caísses | caísse | caíssemos | caísseis | caíssem |
Future | cair | caíres | cair | cairmos | cairdes | caírem |
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | cai | caia | caiamos | caí | caiam | |
Negative (não) | não caias | não caia | não caiamos | não caiais | não caiam |
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Macanese: cai
References
edit- “cair” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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