tunar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tuˈna(ʁ)/ [tuˈna(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tuˈna(ʁ)/ [tuˈna(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /tuˈna(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /tuˈna(ʁ)/ [tuˈna(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /tuˈna(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuˈnaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuˈnaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuˈna.ɾi/

Etymology 1

From the French phrase roi de Thunes (“King of Tunis”), used to refer to vagabonds. More at Thune on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr.

Verb

tunar (first-person singular present tuno, first-person singular preterite tunei, past participle tunado)

1. to be idle or lazy

   Synonyms: vadiar, vagabundar, vagabundear

Conjugation

    Conjugation of tunar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	tunar
Personal	tunar	tunares	tunar	tunarmos	tunardes	tunarem
Gerund
	tunando
Past participle
Masculine	tunado			tunados
Feminine	tunada			tunadas
Indicative
Present	tuno	tunas	tuna	tunamos	tunais	tunam
Imperfect	tunava	tunavas	tunava	tunávamos	tunáveis	tunavam
Preterite	tunei	tunaste	tunou	tunamos1, tunámos2	tunastes	tunaram
Pluperfect	tunara	tunaras	tunara	tunáramos	tunáreis	tunaram
Future	tunarei	tunarás	tunará	tunaremos	tunareis	tunarão
Conditional	tunaria	tunarias	tunaria	tunaríamos	tunaríeis	tunariam
Subjunctive
Present	tune	tunes	tune	tunemos	tuneis	tunem
Imperfect	tunasse	tunasses	tunasse	tunássemos	tunásseis	tunassem
Future	tunar	tunares	tunar	tunarmos	tunardes	tunarem
Imperative
Affirmative		tuna	tune	tunemos	tunai	tunem
Negative (não)		não tunes	não tune	não tunemos	não tuneis	não tunem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Etymology 2

From English to tune (“to adjust a mechanical, electric or electronic device”).

Verb

tunar (first-person singular present tuno, first-person singular preterite tunei, past participle tunado)

1. to tune an automobile; to engage in car tuning
2. (slang) to improve, to better

   Synonyms: aperfeiçoar, melhorar, turbinar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of tunar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	tunar
Personal	tunar	tunares	tunar	tunarmos	tunardes	tunarem
Gerund
	tunando
Past participle
Masculine	tunado			tunados
Feminine	tunada			tunadas
Indicative
Present	tuno	tunas	tuna	tunamos	tunais	tunam
Imperfect	tunava	tunavas	tunava	tunávamos	tunáveis	tunavam
Preterite	tunei	tunaste	tunou	tunamos1, tunámos2	tunastes	tunaram
Pluperfect	tunara	tunaras	tunara	tunáramos	tunáreis	tunaram
Future	tunarei	tunarás	tunará	tunaremos	tunareis	tunarão
Conditional	tunaria	tunarias	tunaria	tunaríamos	tunaríeis	tunariam
Subjunctive
Present	tune	tunes	tune	tunemos	tuneis	tunem
Imperfect	tunasse	tunasses	tunasse	tunássemos	tunásseis	tunassem
Future	tunar	tunares	tunar	tunarmos	tunardes	tunarem
Imperative
Affirmative		tuna	tune	tunemos	tunai	tunem
Negative (não)		não tunes	não tune	não tunemos	não tuneis	não tunem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Romanian

Etymology

From tun +‎ -ar.

Noun

tunar m (plural tunari)

1. gunner

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tunar	tunarul		tunari	tunarii
genitive-dative	tunar	tunarului		tunari	tunarilor
vocative	tunarule			tunarilor

Spanish

Etymology

From tuno +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈnaɾ/ [t̪uˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tu‧nar

Verb

tunar (first-person singular present tuno, first-person singular preterite tuné, past participle tunado)

1. (intransitive) to loaf; to bum around

Conjugation

    Conjugation of tunar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			tunar
gerund			tunando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		tunado		tunada
		plural		tunados		tunadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	tuno	tunastú tunásvos	tuna	tunamos	tunáis	tunan
	imperfect	tunaba	tunabas	tunaba	tunábamos	tunabais	tunaban
	preterite	tuné	tunaste	tunó	tunamos	tunasteis	tunaron
	future	tunaré	tunarás	tunará	tunaremos	tunaréis	tunarán
	conditional	tunaría	tunarías	tunaría	tunaríamos	tunaríais	tunarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	tune	tunestú tunésvos2	tune	tunemos	tunéis	tunen
	imperfect (ra)	tunara	tunaras	tunara	tunáramos	tunarais	tunaran
	imperfect (se)	tunase	tunases	tunase	tunásemos	tunaseis	tunasen
	future1	tunare	tunares	tunare	tunáremos	tunareis	tunaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		tunatú tunávos	tune	tunemos	tunad	tunen
	negative		no tunes	no tune	no tunemos	no tunéis	no tunen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “tunar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10