30 Spanish Verbs Ending in Par With Tips for Remembering Them
| acampar | to camp - I'm a gonna go a-campin |
| agrupar | to group - U are part of the group |
| anticipar | to anticipate |
| atrapar | to trap or catch - I'm a gonn-a trap that beast |
| campar | to camp |
| chapar | to plate or coat - think of chaps covering your legs |
| chupar | to suck - chew your food then suck on a straw |
| copar | to surround - think of co-pairing, really, really pairing |
| culpar | to blame - the culprit |
| desocupar | to vacate - to de-occupy |
| destapar | to uncover - to de-top |
| discrepar | to disagree - there's a discrepancy |
| disculpar | to excuse - un-blame the culprit |
| disipar | to dissipate - think of disappear |
| emancipar | to emancipate |
| ensopar | to soak - think of a big tub of soapy water |
| escampar | to clear off/up/out - escape the camp |
| escapar | to get away or escape |
| estampar | to stamp |
| extirpar | to remove - do you know the English word extirpate? |
| galopar | to gallop |
| ocupar | to occupy |
| participar | to participate |
| preocupar | to worry - to be preoccupied |
| raspar | to scrape - a rasp is a type of file |
| solapar | to cover up - protect yourself from the sun - el sol |
| tapar | to cover - with Spanish a it sounds like top |
| topar | to run or bump into - they will need “to par”don you |
| trepar | to climb - think of climbing a pear tree |
| usurpar | to usurp |
I used the Spanish Rhyming Dictionary to find all of the Spanish words that end in "par". Then I used OpenOffice Calc to get them into a single column in a spreadsheet. Then I pasted them into Google Translate and pasted the translations back into my spreadsheet. I sorted through them, removing ones that I thought were less important and added the comments and necessary formatting to turn this into a quasi-table so that the columns line up.
If this type of post is popular I will do it with other common verb endings. There are 230 Spanish words ending in "rar" for example. I would break this down into more manageable chunks by focusing on some of the most common 4 letter endings.
3 Answers
"Par" is not a verb, par is a word that is referred to a numbers. Maybe the verb should have been "emparejar", which means to pair.
By the way this post helps a lot. Thanks!
Great post for learning am bumping.
nice
