Salvo o Salvado

Question

The dictionary gives the past participle of "salvar" as "salvo". But I have seen "salvado" as one might expect on other sites.

Is this a typo?

Answer 1

Hi jespa, you are right, a dictionary flaw. I will ask Paralee to mend it, thanks

Answer 2

Not so fast.

I checked at least 5 other conjugators. So of the 6 conjugators, 3 of them give "salvo" as an option to "salvado".

What do we do now. I suggest do nothing and choose either option. You may have to defend your choice, and, probably "salvado" is the best choice but the other option seems to be acceptable.

Real Academia Española only says "salvado".

Answer 3

Yes so fast, Moe

salvo is an adjective, nor a verb form.

salvo1, va. (Del lat. salvus). 1. adj. Ileso, librado de un peligro.

Both from the RAE

Participio

salvado

Well, we actually do know, and salvo is NOT an option.

What do we do now.

Answer 4

Even if "salvo" was an option, why would anyone want to use it when the regular "salvado" was available?

Unless it was to avoid confusion with the word for "bran" - not a very compelling reason, I would have thought!

Answer 5

Heidita:

Do you think I imagined my answer?

Look at these:

Verbix Conjugator ----> Salvar

Elemadrid.com ----> Salvar

Span¡shD!ct ----> Salvar

These are the 3 references I alluded to.

Answer 6

I have just been looking through my Oxford Spanish Dictionary - 3rd Edition- in the English section ....

Please note the following; Save (Prep) 1) the word 'salvo' meaning save when mentioned in this dictionary has a different meaning from rescue it means: apart from... or save (for)... in spanish.. excepto, con excepción de... and, as such, would not have a past participle since it is used here as a preposition rather than a verb..

2) The normal way to form the past participle of any regular spanish verb is to take the infinitive which is Salvar and remove the ending in this case 'AR' leaving the stem SALV and to add ADO to form the past participle for AR verbs ( IDO for ER and IR verbs) or ando for forming the progressive present participle for ar verbs ( gerund) or iendo for er and ir verbs. I find that Christopher Kendris's 501 Spanish verbs (4th edition) to be an indispensible and invaluable guide to forming verbs in spanish. Although the verb SALVAR is not conjugated in the main part of the book a cross reference at the back mentions lavar (page 288) which indicates that it follows the same construction as lavar past participle: lavado... so salvar must also become salvado. One final point, when choosing the correct word from a dictionary care must be taken to look at the way the word is used in the examples given in context so as to use it appropriately.